... characters with a path to follow. There are two types of plot structure which we can distinguish between - loose plot and organic plot. One of these novels is afflicted with a loose plot, which is described as ". . . composed of a number of detached incidents which have little necessary or logical connection among ... This concept of breaking free from the constraints placed on the characters by others and society is a prevalent theme in the plot structures of both novels. Theme is the final element of structure to be discussed. Norton defines theme as "a generalized, abstract paraphrase ...

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... want to be rid of realism,"" V. Woolf wrote, "to penetrate without its help into the regions beneath it."" An impressionist painting. In "The Gender of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. Woolf's novel as an impressionist painting (I think the whole book consists of reflections, flashes of sudden ... are rather presented than "narrated-. E.g., we get quite a realistic picture of London and its streets and parks, etc. Highly emotional and psychological. Her novels could be considered both as h...

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... underscore the imaginary romantic world which Emma creates for herself, Minnelli shows us Emma's room with its walls plastered with dramatic scenes from popular romantic novels--" a landscape of enchanted woods, engravings of rapt lovers from sentimental novels, thumbed-over copies of fashion magazines...images of beauty which never existed" (204). The room becomes in the film a perfect visual image of Emma's interior ... ...

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... reader in a situation related to real life. In a situation where the reader does not have "direct access to a character´s [inner] thoughts and feelings (Edmondson 20), other than in traditional novels where the literary minds are transparent and the reader knows everything about them. How did Vriginia Woolf manage to do this? By the use of an omniscient third person narrator ... ...

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... from her mother. It is very possible to learn through instructions, but in life most people, if not everyone, learns through experience. In another book, "Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women" by Simone A. James Alexander, Kincaid confesses: In my first two books, I used to think I was writing about my mother and myself. Later I began to see ... ...

• Word Count: 1351
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. However, these protagonists are perceived very differently as a result of the different narrative perspectives in the ... ...

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... is written using a series of letters written by the principal character, Celie, and also her sister Nettie. The epistolary novel appeared to peak in Europe during the eighteenth century in novels such as Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa. However, since then, the epistolary form has not been consistently favoured by novelists, only being noticeably utilised in Swinburne's Love's Cross Currents and John ... ...

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... just how pervasive and destructive the "racialization- (Morrison's term for the racism that is a part of every person's socialization) is (Leflore). Morrison is particularly concerned about the narration in her novels. She says, "People crave narration . . . That's the way they learn things- (Bakerman 58). Narration in The Bluest Eye comes from several sources. Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer ... ...

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... unique style of writing. One either loves or hates Faulkner's writing, there is no median. Faulkner used this way of narrating with multiple narrators in many of his critically acclaimed novels, such as Absalom Absalom!. This particular novel is very similar to many of his other works, in the sense that it takes a look at a particular family and its story. This ... ...

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... 's. Both make use of a realistic and journalistic style that is at the same time poetic. But Hemingway challenges the reader to interpret for him- or herself the events in his novels. For one instance, in the opening chapter of A Farewell to Arms, he states that an epidemic sweeps through an army outpost, killing "only" about 15,000 men. No comment on ... ...

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... views truth or epistemology as visual, not verbal or vocal. Faulkner, on the other hand, sticks to his innate and obsessive Southern lyricism, promoting "aurality" over vision in such great novels as The Sound and The Fury and Light in August. However, he concludes that the genuine American mode of writing is essentially visual, and America will not finally depend on ... ...

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... still draw on some traditional means of storytelling from the media of cinema, television and books in order to be successful. Since the beginning of the development of hypertext, hypertext novels, essays and short stories have been created as well as specific sites for writers to post their work. One such interactive storytelling site is www.storyteller.net. This site allows ... ...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate