Narrator Essays
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Gina Moynihan is an unreliable narrator of her own story as she contradictions herself throughout the entire novel. She also does not conform to a basic structure and further points will explain how she states and makes mistakes when certain things took place and how they happened. Gina was infatuated with Sean yet looking back in the novel, that is not stated anywhere. She also recalls being confused by him in early meetings, even after their first night together she...
3 Pages
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A narrator is one of the most important elements of any literary work, as he, she, or they are the voice that not only shares the story with the reader, but also conveys their thoughts, opinions, and details to make the story more understandable. What is a narrator, exactly? According to the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, a narrator is “one who tells a story”. There are three different points of view that can be used in narrating a story. When...
2 Pages
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The story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ written by Edgar Allen Poe, can be best summarized as a piece of gothic literature in which introduces the idea of a man going insane. In the beginning, it was only a mere obsession with an ‘evil eye’. The obsession itself, however, led to the murder of the man with the said ‘evil eye’. In short, this story is a clear representation of a transition into insanity. Given the details and plot development, it is...
2 Pages
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Eva Lopo is an extremely active character throughout the book, she observes, she understands, but more importantly, as the novel progresses, she becomes increasingly more informed about Portuguese presence in Mozambique. Throughout the novel, the audience experiences a transformation in the attitude and outlook of the main protagonist. We are taken on a journey with Eva Lopo, from the young and naive Evita, to the aware and informed woman we see at the end of the novel. At the start...
3 Pages
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Why did the unconscious part of the brains of the protagonists seems as if it were put get them? Carl Gustav Jung, a psychoanalyst would call it the collective unconscious; it’s a universal shared memory in which mankind seems to repress their true emotions without being aware of it. This concept is easier to make sense of when one looks at the character of Captain Gunther Lutz, a former SS Nazi officer. He visits his place of joy, Dachau concentration...
2 Pages
690 Words