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which shows that he only thinks about him and that he does not really want to help Jefferson. For him, Jefferson isn’t important and he believes that it wouldn’t change anything if Jefferson felt like a human or like a hog. 3) A narrator spectator. We have here a narrator spectator: Grant is a passive character, he stays near the door because he’s hurt to be treated as being lower than the whites only because he is a black man. That is why he keeps his distances and does not intervene in the action

and privation. The third character is their daughter Eliza Mae, a young child. The mother's name is not mentioned as she is the narrator relating the story in the first person. At the beginning the scene is set in Luca and the narrator's cabin. Luca breaks the news of their master's death, wich implies that they might be sold to another master. Later, the narrator describes how she is trated by the overseer of the plantation. She is whipped while working in the fields whenever the pace of work

African-American Occupation (=job): Blues and Jazz singer. About the extract Source: Billie Holiday’s autobiography, Lady sings the Blues (1956) Type of narrative: It’s a first person narrative. The setting: nightclubs where Miss Holiday sang. The narrator: a VERY (very, very, very!!!) famous African American Blues singer. The title is a reference to the first two words of the famous protest song “Strange fruit”. In the Southern and Border States, these trees held the bodies (the strange fruit) of

to him being the criminal. In a sense it is rationality pushed to the extreme! Is it really credible then? In effect, some elements of this story seem to undermine the ghost story narrative, to make fun of it. The main vehicle for this is the narrator. He is almost alien to the story since he is telling someone (us) the story of a person he doesn’t know, this person being a friend of a friend of his, who happened to hear a story we, fictive characters, apparently already heard. We are thrown into

in meetings between people of same sex, age, or between people linked by relations of intimacy they can break this Tabohat. In short, it is very difficult trading jokes sex between family members. When is exceeded the barrier of decency, "says the narrator of the humor of the door Alastltaf:« no shyness in religion ». and religion are synonymous with sex because the governing rules) or so it seems (. heroes jokes Nationality, mostly males. the emancipation of women in Morocco is still not completed

the Duchess understand the meaning of this speechless communication, but another person could not understand, it is like a secret language. The reader can understand this strange conversation thanks to the inner thoughts of Oliver expressed by the narrator. The duchess manipulates Oliver, she wants him to take pity on her. She tries to coax Oliver by calling him "old friend" two times. But the Duchess' argument that really catches Oliver's attention is the promise of a long week-end with the Prime

all of her movements. ‘’ But in the course of that survey, her eyes met Deronda’s. ‘’ they are absolutely not talking to each others, there is no dialogue. Furtherer we can notice that it’s a showing text, the narrator is making a description during an action and it’s not an obtrusive narrator. He is not making commentaries about the scene he is only describing. * Georges Eliot focus his writing on the character minds and behavior, he is analyzing their movements. * It’s a Portrait of the

more. For me it has nothing of a cult book. It is interesting if one wants to commit suicide or commit terrorist attacks, making homemade bombs, all this all this, or make soap, simply. For the rest, nothing too spectacular in my opinion ... The narrator, insomnia for three months, is determined to succeed in sleep. He decides to follow a completely new therapy that is to attend multiple support groups for people suffering from deadly diseases, allowing him to approach death and despair very closely

pas être en forme to shoot baskets = faire des paniers au basket Answer the following questions a) General comprehension 1. What is the nature of the text? (1 point) 2. Fill in the blanks of the summary, taking words from the text. (5 points) The narrator is a young ………………. who is returning to his ……………..after having resided in Seattle. At first he falls into apathy and only watches ………………without even reading the …………of the newspaper to find a job. However, he begins to practice ……………….again and gets

community. Two groups dominate the novel : the men, who recall their youth and the five suicidal Lisbon sisters. The choice of narrators, a group rather than an individual, using the first person plural is an unusual one. Here men recall a time when they weren't yet fully formed as individuals, when experience was communal, shared and puzzled over together. So the narrator is one or all of a group of adolescent boys who obsessed over the Lisbon girls from a distance in their youth, and now, as middle-aged