English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
December 07, 2003 - December 13, 2003
Identity Theft: A Search for Self and Family
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Meredeth Lammert
Identity – one’s being, one’s character, one’s image – becomes blurred for both Huckleberry Finn and Lindsey Salmon after a horrific murder separates both of them from their parents and parental figures ultimately leaving them to search for a replacement of authority and responsibility in themselves as well as...
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Posted by mlammert on December 13, 2003 at 10:27 AM
truth v. Lies
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jannelle Richardson
Jannelle Richardson Introduction to Narrative Final Paper Professor Phillipson Truths v. Lies The words truth and lie are antonyms. Truth defined means sincerity in action, character, and utterance, the state of being the case, fact . Lie defined means to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive also to...
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Posted by jrichar2 on December 11, 2003 at 10:11 AM
Severing of the Umbilical Cord: the Act of Detachment
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Katie Mitterling
Traditionally, mothers are depicted as the caregivers in the family, sources of comfort and warmth. However, in both Anne Sebold's The Lovely Bones and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, mothers are represented as wholly egocentric and coldly passionate women. Through the narrations of Susie Salmon and Darl Bundren,...
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Posted by kmitterl on December 11, 2003 at 03:52 AM
Telling it how it Really is:
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Europa Yang
Europa Yang 12/5/03 Telling it how it Really is: When wishful thinking causes narrators to misperceive other key characters In storytelling, the greatest fallibility of the narrator is the tendency to allow personal biases to taint perception. By doing so, the narrator provides the audience with a more subjective and...
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Posted by eyang on December 09, 2003 at 10:36 AM
The Word Became Flesh
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jim Light
The biblical incarnation of Christ is a seemingly unfathomable mystery. To fully comprehend the notion that a person could be both fully human and fully God is an impossible task. Instead, it is preferable to accept the divine qualities—omniscience, infiniteness—of Christ and ignore the human side. It is certainly harder...
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Posted by jlight on December 09, 2003 at 10:03 AM
Sticks and Stones and Bones: Two Differing Views onLife and Death as Continuums in As I Lay Dying and The Lovely Bones
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Alex Smith
The Lovely Bones and As I Lay Dying, share the common belief that the dead never really die, but continue to influence the living from beyond the grave. The narrators reveal these beliefs through descriptions of specific physical barriers that separate these two worlds. However, a closer look at...
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Posted by asmith9 on December 09, 2003 at 10:02 AM
Adolescent Obsession with Death in
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jeb Bobseine
Mark Twain and William Faulkner choose two different paths in revealing the death of a parental figure. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain decides to withhold the fact of Huck’s father’s death from the narratee. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner does not withhold the fact of...
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Posted by jbobsein on December 09, 2003 at 09:52 AM
Always Question Authority?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Ryan Hurd
Alice in Wonderland and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn view the interaction between children and adults. In both instances the novels reveal what gives these children their power over adults. In Alice in Wonderland, the naratee is given the sense that size and knowledge are some of the few...
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Posted by rhurd on December 09, 2003 at 09:43 AM
Death and Its Influence Upon the Living
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Mike Stratton
Death in both Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Sebold’s The Lovely Bones has the power to control the actions of the living long after the deaths have occurred. Addie Bundren’s dying wish was to be buried among her own people in Jefferson forty miles from her family’s home. This...
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Posted by mstratto on December 09, 2003 at 09:42 AM
The Mother-Stranger
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Sophie Wiss
In the novels As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, we are allowed to see beyond how children or husbands think of motherhood and finally get a glimpse of motherhood through the eyes of the mother. Never claiming that motherhood is an easy...
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Posted by swiss on December 09, 2003 at 09:42 AM
unrequited love
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Kendall Brown
Kendall Brown 12/6/03 ENG 104 Unrequited Love In both William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones the power of parental love is explored. In each case the unrequited love of the parent is not returned by the child; the one-sided nature of this love does...
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Posted by kbrown2 on December 09, 2003 at 09:42 AM
Dead Mothers: Abigail and Addie
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Merrie Railsback
In As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, the mother figures in both novels seem to be dead in life. Externally, the two mothers seem to be loving housewives, dedicated to their husbands and children. What is striking is that both women...
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Posted by mrailsba on December 09, 2003 at 09:38 AM
The Power of the Narrator in Alice in Wonderland and
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Eric Davich
The novels Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain are written with the intention of presenting relationships between children and adults in which one generation has a distinct power over the other. Both novels follow the main character, (Alice or Huck), through...
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Posted by edavich on December 09, 2003 at 09:37 AM
Movin' on Out
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Matthew Roy
In both Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Alice Sebold’s "The Lovely Bones", the narrators are somehow excluded from a specific community at some point during the novels. Whether from life on land to a life on a river, or from life on earth to life in heaven,...
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Posted by mroy on December 09, 2003 at 09:26 AM
The Role and Validity of Words
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Monica Ruzicka
Words play an essential role in any narration as they are meant to convey intangible thoughts or actions to aid the progression of events. However, when these very words that are meant to clarify become themselves a source of confusion and tension, their significance is lost in a torrent...
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Posted by mruzicka on December 09, 2003 at 09:25 AM
The Generation Gaps in Alice in Wonderland and Huck Finn
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jeff Nolin
Gaps in generations occur in nearly every work. One generation usually has a distinct power over another, and in most cases the generation carrying the power is the older of the two. A traditional example of these generation gaps is Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Alice, a young girl, has...
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Posted by jnolin on December 09, 2003 at 09:24 AM
Life and Death, Huck and Darl
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Aki Makino
Commonalties in narration exist between the two novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, through the idea of life and death, especially between the narration provided by Huck from Huckleberry Finn and Darl from As I Lay Dying. The...
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Posted by amakino on December 09, 2003 at 09:22 AM
Children As Adults
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Erica Michel
Erica Michel Inro to Narrative Children As Adults In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, the main characters are young girls who have control over adults in the novels. Both of these girls take on the roles of adults during the novels, and realize the...
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Posted by emichel on December 09, 2003 at 09:08 AM
Truth in Action: An Analysis of Heroism As I Lay Dying and Huckleberry Finn
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jennifer Bernstein
Just as Faulkner creates mystery around the character of Jewel in As I Lay Dying, Twain leaves Jim’s history, motivations, and deepest thoughts untold in Huckleberry Finn. In fact, the many narrators in Faulkner’s novel and Huck in Twain’s novel fail to present a coherent and comprehensive interpretation of these...
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Posted by jbernste on December 09, 2003 at 09:08 AM
Hypocrisy and Falsehood take over Realism
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Torri Parker
A match made in heaven. Cora and Jim are two very similar characters in two very different novels. Religion and hypocrisy play very important roles in the lives of each of these characters. Where one dwells on witchcraft, the other dwells on Christianity. Through both forms, they both claim...
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Posted by cparker on December 09, 2003 at 09:06 AM
Intergenerational Power Dynamics: A Discussion of Huck and Alice
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Andrew Morrison
When one considers the interactions of children and adults, one intuitively assumes that adults have the upper hand in most relationships. However, as can be seen in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, frequently this is not the case....
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Posted by amorriso on December 09, 2003 at 09:06 AM
The Horror! vs. Ho, Hum...the Horror:
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Julie Calareso
Julie Calareso 11/28/03 Introduction to Narrative- Essay 2 The Horror! vs. Ho, Hum…the Horror: Both Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, introduce their novels with opening scenes of horror and fright: young girls lured into deep, dark places by someone or...
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Posted by jcalares on December 09, 2003 at 08:39 AM
Death: Through the Eyes of a Child (Surprising Similarities Through Analysis of Differences)
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Alex Krippner
People of all ages experience the impact of death, though they deal with it in various ways. The degree of personal involvement with death is an important factor as well, but often it is age that is most significant in determining one’s ability to cope with such a tragedy. Life...
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Posted by kkrippne on December 09, 2003 at 08:03 AM
Maturing through Unseen Observation
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Drew Fulton
Mark Twain and Alice Sebold both utilize similar narrative styles, the first person participatory narrator. Twain’s narrator, Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of his adventures as he traveled down the Mississippi River. Sebold adds a slight twist to her narrator, Susie Salmon, when she...
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Posted by afulton on December 09, 2003 at 06:47 AM
Fear and Loathing
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Eli Maitland
Eli Maitland 12/9/03 Intro to Narrative Professor Phillipson Fear and Loathing In many literary works, descriptions of horrific or gruesome acts can serve as very powerful tools of narration. The depictions of these events may change drastically from one work to the next based on the “narratee” and the message...
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Posted by emaitlan on December 09, 2003 at 05:48 AM
My Mother is a Fish, My Sister is a Shoe
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Greg Pearson
Each and every one of us has, at some point, probably during our childhood, asked the same thing: what happens to us when we die? A slightly speechless adult has looked down at us, trying to formulate some kind of explanation that will make sense, even though they themselves are...
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Posted by gpearson on December 09, 2003 at 04:27 AM
The Struggle Between Generations for Narrative Control
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Nicole Colucci
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn depict the struggles of adolescents grappling to embark on journeys of self-discovery. Both Alice and Huck Finn are eager to grow and mature, driven by a desire to escape their monotonous, rule-ridden lives. However, their endeavors to gain...
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Posted by ncolucci on December 09, 2003 at 04:03 AM
Anything you can do, I can do better!
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Dro Joseney
What happens when someone wants something that you have and only one person can have it? Well, in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, a rigged competition happens. Huck tries to get better adventures than Tom Sawyer; and Darl tries to repossess...
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Posted by cjoseney on December 09, 2003 at 02:39 AM
Growth and Maturation in Alice in Wonderland and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and their Effect on Narration Style
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Dan Herzberg
When we pick up a book about a child’s adventures in an unknown land, we often associate it with the typical “coming of age story.” Both Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are journey pieces that depict the travels of a child. Each...
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Posted by dherzber on December 09, 2003 at 02:13 AM
Addie and Susie: death on earth and heaven
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Emily Hubbard
In both novels, Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying the two main characters experience a feeling of isolation. It is Susie, however, that responds with more emotion and concern than Addie. It seems that Susie’s isolation would be less understandable than Addie’s because...
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Posted by ehubbard on December 09, 2003 at 02:00 AM
Blinded by desire: Narrators without credibility
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Chris Johnson
Storytellers must be scrutinized, for they do not always give an unbiased narration of their story. Deciding whether or not a narrator is credible - an important decision that will affect one’s opinions about characters, plot, even the narrator himself - is not always easy, however. Some narrators, like...
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Posted by cjohnso2 on December 09, 2003 at 01:54 AM
Distorting Effects of Desire
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Kelsey Hughes
Character’s desires twist the narration in both As I Lay Dying and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Anse’s utter selfishness warps the novel as he places priority to his wealth and wooden teeth rather than his dead wife and his grieving family. Huck’s desires stem from his dislike towards structure and...
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Posted by khughes2 on December 09, 2003 at 01:11 AM
Self-Isolation From Adolescence
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Ged Wieschhoff
In both Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the narrators are excluded from the playful youth community (the children who enjoy pretending, acting older than their age, seeking mischief, and having adventures). Both narrators choose to exclude themselves from the imaginative youth of their...
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Posted by gwieschh on December 09, 2003 at 01:08 AM
Huck & Alice: Two Distinct Forms of Power Over Adults/One Effect Upon the Final Understanding of Each Character
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Alex Paul
When considering the nature of relationships between children and adults, one generally assumes that older individuals should exert a controlling influence over adolescents. Such is not the case, however, in Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland, written by Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, respectively. In these novels, the young main...
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Posted by apaul on December 09, 2003 at 01:00 AM
Fear and Loathing – Contrasting the narration of horrifying events in The Lovely Bones and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jade Dunn
Terror, devastation, and agony are three elements of life that most people pray to avoid and openly fear. Despite this desire to evade tragedy, the reactions and the methods of coping that are drawn out by these horrifying events can sometimes reveal secrets of one’s character that have remained previously...
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Posted by jdunn2 on December 09, 2003 at 12:42 AM
family ties
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jin-Sun Kim
Jin-Sun Kim December 6, 2003 Intro to Narrative Phillipson Family Ties By having one prominent narrator in The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold reaffirms the unity and closeness of the Salmon family, which stunts their ease to moving on from Susie’s death, while in As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner’s choice...
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Posted by jkim3 on December 09, 2003 at 12:37 AM
Mental Transcendence
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Frank Chi
When observing an unfolding drama, an individual’s voyeuristic viewpoints can display an objective view and reflect an urge to enter or escape such an exclusive community. In Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, such characters can be found as they deal with conflicting sentiments...
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Posted by fchi on December 09, 2003 at 12:33 AM
Shattered Viewpoints or Unification in Sorrow?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Dan Yingst
The narrative in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Sebold’s The Lovely Bones is controlled by an omniscient presence that stands above the events in the novels and arranges what we see. In Faulkner’s work the controller is subtle and never directly addresses us. If it were not for...
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Posted by dyingst on December 08, 2003 at 11:54 PM
They’re Watching: The Narrator as Voyeur
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Molly McCarter
The Lovely Bones and Alice in Wonderland are both books about children. Alice in Wonderland, however, is ostensibly a children’s book, and The Lovely Bones is aimed at adults. It is counter-intuitive, and then, that the narrator of Alice seems to be an adult, while the narrator of The...
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Posted by mmccarte on December 08, 2003 at 11:45 PM
Methods of Eavesdropping and Influences on Narration
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Alix Roy
The human race is always involved in a constant quest to know more. Most of the time, this quest is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged in many educational spheres. But other times, the information we crave is not meant for our ears, and we are forced to decide how...
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Posted by aroy on December 08, 2003 at 11:13 PM
The Eye Verses the Ear: Making Sense of Nonsense
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Tasha Graff
What the eye sees and what the ear hears are two separate entities, especially in the realm of the written word. Hearing a story read aloud verses actually reading the words of the story with one’s own eyes can result in different interpretations and reactions to the story. This discrepancy...
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Posted by tgraff on December 08, 2003 at 10:45 PM
Father, Father Why Do You Bother?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Meghan Gillis
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." -- Kent Nerburn Fathers play minor roles in both William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Pap and Anse are similar in the sense that they are horrible egotistical fathers. The authors of...
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Posted by mgillis on December 08, 2003 at 10:24 PM
The Power That Children Have Over Others
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Niki Alvarez
Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, writers of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, share numerous writing techniques which aid them in telling their stories. One striking similarity between the two novels is that they both seem to reverse the roles that children and adults usually...
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Posted by nalvarez on December 08, 2003 at 09:57 PM
A Child's Lesson in Death
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Emily Sheffield
Death is a frightening and complicated concept; it is especially challenging for a child to comprehend what it means to die. The über narrator’s use of interior monologues in As I Lay Dying allows the reader to peer into the mind of Vardaman, the youngest Bundren, as he grapples...
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Posted by esheffie on December 08, 2003 at 09:53 PM
Prejudice Against Unique Intelligences Reveals Lack of Objective Narration In As I Lay Dying and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Ryan Helminiak
Darl, in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, and Jim, in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, allow, via their unique intelligences, the reader to clearly see where objective narration is lacking in these two novels. While it may seem like Darl and Jim’s intelligences are drastically flawed in the books because...
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Posted by rhelmini on December 08, 2003 at 09:03 PM
What’s My Age Again?
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Jason Lewis
Maturation is a prominent theme in both Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In these unique coming of age novels, the art of narration plays an integral role. Both Huck and Alice, the young protagonists of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland...
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Posted by jlewis2 on December 08, 2003 at 08:50 PM
The Persistence of Existence
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Taneisha Wilson
Taneisha Wilson December 2, 2003 English 104 Pro. Mark Phillipson The Persistence of Existence The presence of death often leads to the ignorance of the needs of those alive; nowhere is this statement more true than in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. In...
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Posted by twilson on December 08, 2003 at 08:20 PM
Desire for Human Connections and Narrative Credibility
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Kira Chappelle
Huck Finn of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Susie Salmon of The Lovely Bones both desire relationships that nurture and fulfill voids in their lives. Huck seeks out relationships with adults that fulfill the void of the healthy parent-child relationship he never experienced. Susie, on the other hand, seeks to...
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Posted by kchappel on December 08, 2003 at 07:37 PM
The Hidden Significance of a Parent’s Death
Category: 2 Essay: Carroll, Twain, Faulkner, Sebold | Britta Bene
It is evident from the title of William Faulkner’s book As I Lay Dying that a death will occur, is occurring, or has occurred. Thus, we know that Addie Bundren’s passing away will be a crucial element throughout the story; in fact, it is the main driving force behind all...
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Posted by bbene on December 08, 2003 at 04:49 PM