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third-part commentary. I will first deal with the regionalism. In a second part, I will explain the link between the author, the narrator and the editor. Finally, I will put the stress on the parallelism between Jim Burden and Willa Cather. The Summary : The first-person introduction is written in the voice of a childhood friend of Jim Burden, who is the narrator for the remainder of the novel. The anonymous speaker in this introduction tells us that last summer, he unexpectedly met his friend

The different aspects of the past in David Copperfield concern nostalgy, repetition & double consciousness. 1) Nostalgy The past in the novel is shown as prevailing over the present. Childhood is idealized and arrouses nostalgy in the narrator. a. A timeless world He calls up a remote time and he tries to bring back to his consiousness the earliest memories of his childhood. Chapter 2 “ I think the memory...”. Such memories are situated in a sort of timeless Eden, as the child has

Compréhension 1. This is a first person narrative. The narrator is the main character. "Will Savage and I were thrown together as juniors at prep school […]" 2. The scene takes place at the narrator's prep school. "[…] strangers to a cold New England Campus […]" "When the housemaster showed me and my parents to the cell that would be my home for the next academic year […]" "Your room at home is much nicer […]" "[…] I was most worried that my roommate would arrive before they left." 3. The

field of the fear, for instance at lines 8 and 9 the narrator explains that «her heart fluttered, her knees trembled and her cheeks grew pale», then at 22 the narrator tells that she «was motionless with horror» or at line 27 «Catherine trembled from head to foot». In parallel with the description of the innocent girl, we notice the one of a dark villain : a ghost. Even if its description is unclear, we can imagine its presence. Thus, the narrator describes at line 26 a wind «rising with sudden fury»

LIVING ROOM - EVENING * (NARRATOR, DAUGHTER, SON) * A WARM LOOKING COUCH IN A FAMILY ROOM, IN SOME SUBURBAN HOME. * A FIRE CRACKLES IN THE FIREPLACE. TWO TEENAGERS -- A 14-YEAR * OLD SON AND A 16-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER -- SIT ON THE COUCH. THEY * LOOK AT THE CAMERA, AND LISTEN TO THE NARRATOR. * * NARRATOR (O.S.) * * Okay. You guys are old enough. I’m * gonna tell you the story of how I met * your mother. * DAUGHTER * * Heard it. * SON * You told us already. * NARRATOR (O.S.) * Sure, you’ve

particularly when she evokes the garden but also when she describes the characters. Nowadays, this novel is considered as a classic of children’s literature but it seems that actually it is more addressed to adults than to children. We can wonder how the narrator presents chracters and events and how he renders judgements on them. How does the narrator’s commentary shape-or attempt to shape- the reader’s perspections? Does this reinforce or undermine the separation between adult and child? Does the narrator’s

written in first person. The narrator is a Jamaican teacher who is currently looking for a position in England. At first, the woman who received her in her office for an interview appears to be quite welcoming: indeed, she’s polite, smiling, well-bred... But reading the text, we soon realize that she has been faking smiles throughout the interview. Beside, from the beginning of it, she has trouble in hiding her real nature: look at the way she reacts when she sees the narrator (line three ....) Then

would have even got married. Therefore/thus we can assert that the narrator sounds optimistic/ is full of hop/hopeful so far, in spite of the inner conflict that tears Ireland/ of the fact that Ireland was the scene of a conflict between the Catho and the Protest. The narrator didn’t pay attention to the conflict/ he seemed not to be affected by the Troubles and mocked reality. WHAT IS THE POWER OF LOVE? As far as the narrator is concerned, love is a means to bridge the gap between the two different

Introduction of the first chapter ( called introduction ) The novel was written in 1918. Now I'm going to talk about the first pages of the novel, we may assume that, contrary to the rest of the novel, the narrator is a childhood friend of Jim Burden. In this chapter the narrator is talking about the past that is to say her memories and her childhood composed of beautiful landscapes, she is also talking with Jim about the evolution of their situations, the social ascent of Jim. The scene takes

it will focus on the narration V. Woolf chose to convey her theory. According to Woolf, one of the many problems that women have been facing for centuries to write creatively is first the access to knowledge. In the first chapter, the narrator is denied the access to library in the fictive university of Oxbridge which is a fusion of the real universities of Cambridge and Oxford because she is a woman. Indeed a man tells that" ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a