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judgments which can be good or not. The country has dark and bright sides. Freedom, justice and democracy are the most important ideals of the USA. However, there is a lack of consistence between these ideals and the American attitude. First, as the narrator explains, the country supported apartheid which is an encounter about racial differences. And the country had a large involvement in the Iraq war. So, America doesn’t really side with freedom and agrees with encounters. Then, the USA refused to

Americans. – ll. 26-47: The discovery of Britain by the American mother. 2. Where exactly does the scene take place? Where does each of these characters live: the narrator, Mrs Lovell? 8 points The scene takes place in London: “Mom, you’re coming to London” (l. 10) indicates that the narrator lives in London. The person called Mom by the narrator most probably lives in the USA, which explains the narrator’s reflection about the relationship between Americans and Great Britain in the second part of the

helped her family. He asks her in marriage. Elisabeth is very happy to accept his demand. b) Genre: A love story. C) Type of narration: It’s a third person, omniscient narrator. The narrator chronicles both the objective or external world and the subjective or internal thoughts and feelings of the characters. The narrator is anonymous. d) Time narration: The narration is a linear narration. There are no flashbacks, everything in this book evolved chapter by chapter. e) Character’s

this might turn out to be my first break." What does this suggest about his professional life? Answer in your own words and find two other examples which confirm this. (quote the text) (30 words in all) 6. Find four reasons in the text why the narrator started talking to the young woman. Answer in your own words. (40 words) 7. (ll. 12-13) "I couldn't believe that a woman so well dressed and so pretty could be sitting on her own in a place like that." Explain this sentence in your own words.

issues that Miller believes are important. His use of language is very important to gain the audiences’ trust. His use of irony and dry humour ‘lulls’ the audience into following him as an objective narrator. This lasts until the ending speech when we suddenly realise A is far from being the objective narrator we thought. Use of ‘you’, binds him to the audience. Look at the shift in language, when he speaks to other characters? Even when Alfieri speaks with other characters, he is performing

un ouvrage de création littéraire de l'éthos aristotélicien dans le discours de l'orateur. We are aware of a voice beyond the fictitious voices that speak in a work, and a person behind all the dramatis personae, and behind even the first-person narrator. We have the sense of a pervasive authorial presence, a determinate intelligence and moral sensibility, which has invented, ordered, rendered and expressed all these literary characters and materials in just this way. The "implied author" chooses

I. The absence of the narrator: It goes without saying that the 1st sentence of a novel is very important. The book begins with these words “I wasn’t there”  The narrator immediately warns the readers that he didn’t go to the trial. He claims that it’s due to the fact that he knows what the verdict would be. He is aware of the conclusions of the jury. He knows it’s hopeless. But as the opening sentence of the novel, it also describes Grant’s state of mind not only in this passage but in the

Conrad’s autobiography, A Personal Record and from ‘Selected Letters En Route to the Congo’, both published in Conrad under the title, ‘Conrad in Congo’, there are several similarities between the author’s journey to the Congo and the tale of the narrator who is called Marlow. Thus, just like Joseph Conrad, Marlow travels to the Congo, full of expectations, to fulfil a dream of his childhood. Also many outward circumstances about the enterprise of the author and that of Marlow are similar, for instance:

noisy, too many lights, transit cops, not let him sleep. He still has not realized in what position he is, he does not realize he hasn’t got any choice. He is in despair at those alternatives. He rejects all 3 possibilities. Second Part : The narrator gets more and more frightened as time goes by, night is coming and he is rejecting all the different options. Finally, in spite of the horror stories that he had heard about central park, he decides to risk it and spend the night there. Central park

had any sense we'd have hung on to the house in Graham Road. Jock says it's worth ten times what we paid for it in '76. We were mad to sell." Minette Walters, The Shape Of Snakes, 2000. {draw:rect} II. COMPREHENSION *1. a*) Who is the narrator? How is he/she related to Sam? * *b) Justify your answer by quoting from the text. 2. Match one element from column A with an element from column B. 3. What consequences did Sam's job have on his lifestyle? (30 words) 4. Choose the right