Articles related to "Narrator"

The narrator of Carver's "Cathedral" has an epiphany when he meets a blind friend of his wife.

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is the account of a murder by a man who will be hung the following morning for his crime.

The winners of the 2009 Audie Awards have announced. Winners include some bestsellers as well as one or two surprises.

A synopsis of Edgar Allan Poe's 'cerebral' horror story, The Fall of the House of Usher.

What is a narrator? How does a writer use them to tell a story? What does it mean to write in "first person" point of view? The answers are here!

When authors decide to use an omniscient narrator to tell their story, they gain the ability to examine the events in the novel from a God-like perspective.

As the mountain dominates Lunenburg, so also it dominates the narrator's mind. With blank verse techniques, Frost brings out the narrator's character in subtle ways.

The Gold-Bug is Edgar Allan Poe's surprisingly upbeat story about a treasure hunt where nothing bad happens. The following is a summary of this unique Poe story.

William Faulkner uses stream of consciousness and unreliable narrators to create novels that reflect a historical perspective.

Popular presenter and author, Stephen Fry, features in a wide variety of audiobooks. These include audiobooks for children and adults.

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is one of the shortest of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. What follows is a synopsis of the story.

Author uses several instances to showcase his concept of love and death and ultimately coming to terms with things coming to "an end."

Filled with candor and excellent details, Fredrica Wagman's novel will entice readers with its grandiose themes, dreams, and desires.

"Into My Own," a sonnet in rhyming couplets, is not dominated by rhyme or meter. Rather, Robert Frost uses good word choices to enthrall his readers.

Orwell ponders this notion of whether or not to shoot an elephant and uphold the law of the land, or to follow his true beliefs and rebel against colonial Britain.

Things aren't always what they seem. Margaret Atwood, in her novel, Surfacing, wants her readers to know this.

A look at how two of the greatest literary voices in modern American fiction wrote the stories of boys in the early 20th century.

By personifying time and using literary devices, the narrator illustrates how Time antagonizes him but that he is confident that he can retaliate against time and succeed

Though Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is often read as a straight ghost story, by giving it a second look, readers may be able to find a different explanation for the

Chaucer within a Chaucer within a Chaucer, the Russian doll style narration by the world famous poet, in relation to the Canterbury Tales

The development of the unreliable narrator in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby locates this novel within the Modernist movement.

Authorial intrusion is a literary device where the author inserts his own thoughts and opinions into the story.

Analysis of "The Mountain" shows how Robert Frost used both description and dialogue to convey a story. Much can be gathered from what he did not include in the poem.

The lure of blankness exists in three paradigms in Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener": Bartleby, the narrator, and the reader/critic.

Atwood's Surfacing takes readers below the surface as one woman re-visits her childhood home and the secrets of her past.

This short story is an interior monologue, sharing the thoughts of a first person narrator.

Building off the segregation of blacks and whites in the mid-19th century, Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" explores what it means to be black and humble and still be.

The Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story of suspense about one man's confrontation of death.

The novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is about perception versus truth.

A summary of the short story The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum delves into the psychological games played by torturers and the mental

Not sure what to look for when reading a novel? These suggestions will help you to get the most out of any book.

Teachers can help high school students write effective narrative essays for exit level tests by following this lesson plan.

A synopsis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story William Wilson the story of a man divided.

A summary of the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. It is the story of a man who hears the heart of the man he killed still beating when...

In her short story "Little Brother," Mary Mann places focus on Mr and Mrs Hodd, showing a disconnection through the use of welfare, presence, and number of their children

Incest is not something generally discussed in open forums. Frederica Wagman explores the effects of incest on an adult survivor in this fascinating book.

Maxine Hong Kingston's 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior explores her experience as a Chinese-American woman.

This seemingly bizarre short story, amusing and entertaining on the surface, has much more to say about poverty.

Resnais' film Night and Fog is a striking cinematic trial of Germany's concentration camps. But it's not only a condemnation of the camps but also of the viewers as well.

Having planned the narrative and considered characterisation and setting here are a few techniques to add flair to a piece of writing.

If reading a Dan Brown bestseller, such as The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol or Angels and Demons, is too much of a time investment, how about listening to an audiobook.

Meg Wolitzer paints a picture of contemporary neuroticism in her story about what happens to a group of patients when their doctor goes on vacation for a month.

Stories of the unexplainable, the fantastic and the imaginary have been a part of the human experience since the beginning of recorded history and probably much longer.

By understanding the significance of crafting poetic imagery - poets are able to create profoundly heartrending or inspirational works that appeal to the sensations.

Liev Shreiber's film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated" retains the humor and humanity of the novel.

Junot Diaz has added an honest and painful gem to the literary canon, with his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

With excellent blank verse techniques that includes wonderful dialog, this poem from "North of Boston", Frost's second book, keeps the reader captivated.

The concept of 'showing' and 'telling', or what is now essentially known as 'show don't tell', is at the heart of contemporary writing and and quest for mimesis.

'The Signalman,' 'The Monkey's Paw,' and 'The Red Room' are ghostly tales which are guaranteed to get the goosebumps rising.

"I Want to Know Why" is a coming-of-age tale in which the narrator has the unfortunate but all-too-common experience of learning that his hero is not the man he imagined.