Narration Essay Examples

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” Revision (beginning at start of last section): Well! The end of our wretched time in the countryside is upon us. We have been here for twelve weeks, and I shan’t show Jennie nor John any signs of absurdity. Jennie pretends to be more doting and caring than previously, but […]

Our narrator Larry is completely unreliable as a narrator.   The entire “essay” is being told from the point of view of a child, and yet is very clearly written by an adult.  The writer would have us believe that the child is actually telling this story, and yet it is completely unbelievable.  First of […]

Charles Dickens Great Expectations and James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, both wrote their novels using a semi-autobiographical style, the second written in a bildungsroman style. The first mentioned being introduced in the first-person aspect, Pip who is the main protagonist is attempting to identify his parentage and outlines briefly his […]

Exploring the ways ‘Cinematic Techniques’ are used in the opening sequence of the ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (0:00 to 0:03. 30), to portray character and develop certain effects within the film drawing emphasis to Cinematography and Mise-En-Scene.In this essay I hope to analyze and decrypt the various cinematic techniques used by the director to serve a […]

The clip from The Bourne Ultimatum tells the story of Jason Bourne trying to help a journalist escape a group who want to kill him to prevent him from passing on his information to Bourne. The narrative follows on from two previous films and this sequence consists of three narrative threads; 1-Jason Bourne’s attempts to […]

Genre can be defined as the “classification of literary works according to common elements of content, form or technique”. The Sixth Sense by Shyamalan, can be categorised as a hybrid genre, containing a mix of a supernatural thriller and a psychological horror. The audience establishes that it is a horror film with aspects of drama, […]

In Mark Haddon’s ‘Curious Incident of The Dog’ the narrative voice of volatile teenager, Christopher Boone is extremely influential in his quest to lead us through his turbulent relationship with not only his father, but also all those that are associated with him. Likewise, in Lloyd Jones’s ‘Mister Pip’ the inclusion of the young island […]

“Impressionism is an emphasis on the process of perception and knowing, through the use of formal, linguistic and representational devices, to present more closely the texture, process or structure of knowing and perceiving. “Mansfield’s short stories, “Prelude”, “At the Bay”, and “The Garden Party” are all vividly Impressionistic. Throughout these stories Mansfield seems to create […]

“Set In Darkness” by Ian Rankin is a novel with a dramatic and socking ending. Rankin creates this effect by portraying the protagonist, John Rebus as willing to do anything in order to arrest the criminals in the story. During Rebus’s investigation into a body found in a fireplace in Queensberry House and also the […]

In this excerpt, which takes place after Tony has left for the Amazon, Waugh continues to allow his reader to come to their own conclusions about the characteristics and behaviour of Brenda by examining what she does and what she says rather than through the narrator or author’s own viewpoint. Nevertheless, the inclusion of irony, […]

Towards the end of the novel as Vernon faces the death penalty for a crime he didn’t commit, he has an outer body experience. The ending is indefinite as the reader is left questioning whether Vernon is alive or dead. The uncertainty of Vernon’s fate is worth exploring.From chapter twenty-six onwards, a chain of events […]

The Second World War broke out in September 1939 under the direction of Adolf Hitler, the British mainland was never invaded, but was subject to bombings during the blitz. At the centre of this was ‘the Close’ in which two inquisitive boys sought understanding into the adult world, with terrifying consequences. This bildungsroman tells the […]

The author’s tone in the passage from Adam Bede represents Bede’s nostalgic feelings for the past, and his disapproval of the present. The tone shows that Bede loved many things of the past, the old fashioned ways of doing things, and now the present is too different and progressed and Bede is no longer comfortable.The […]

The concept of family usually suggests the notions of love and communication. If that were universally true, then the entirely opposite of this would be the cliched entity of the dysfunctional family. But William Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying” introduces us to an uncommon dysfunctional family, the Bundrens, and their story is told in […]

The Fall Of The House Of Usher is a morbid melancholy story, common to the style of Edgar Allan Poe, whose works frequently incorporated death. The story is focused upon Roderick Usher, the last remaining heir to a wealthy family. Roderick was a hypochondriac who had an acuteness of touch, smell and taste, which could […]

The first-person narration style of “The Cask of Amontillado” is essential in creating the original quality of the story. The reason this is so important in this particular story, is because when a sane killer, Montresor, is allowed to tell the story from his point of view, the reader gets a unique, disturbing look into […]

The use of Epiphany through Isolation In the stories, Eveline, Araby, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, Joyce concludes these three stories in his trademark literary style of epiphany; this is achieved through the protagonist’s direct isolation from his/her own bleak reality. Joyce interprets an epiphany as a […]

Compare the ways the nature of racism and prejudice is presented in Bye Beautiful and American History X. In Julia Lawrinson’s Bye Beautiful and Tony Kaye’s American History X, the authors use a range of techniques to explore the ways the nature of racism and prejudice is presented. The novel Bye Beautiful uses a variety […]

The novel can be described as a bildungsroman genre, in other words, a rite of passage novel. In what way does Holden experience a rite of passage? The rite of passage experienced by Holden in the text involves the original identity of Holden: a typical representation of the angst teen, susceptible to extreme dips between […]

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In later years the story was developed into a movie. The film follows closely to the script from the original story Gilman had wrote. However, many details and differences stand out. These differences include the narrative point of view, character expansion, […]

The Most Effective Literary Element in “Cathedral” and Reasons for its Effectiveness Raymond Carver uses the literary elements of characterization and point of view to make Cathedral an effective story. While Cathedral appears to just be a story about a visit between two old friends and the narrator, I see it as a journey between […]

Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a modern dystopian fantasy which tells the story of an ordinary women who becomes subject to the ultra religious beliefs of the Republic of Gilead, a state in which the law of the bible rules. The novel is both modern and classic; drawing influence from many past works of […]