Narrator

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies: résumé et analyse. Overture. Summary. The narrator leaves Westchester to Brooklyn, to die there. He had lived in Brooklyn when he was a little boy (before the age of three), but doesn’t remember anything. He rents an apartment near Prospect Park. He wants nothing but being alone and quiet. He has sold his house after his divorce, and so has no problem with money. He was an insurance agent, but doesn’t know what to do now. His daughter Rachel (a researcher

a beginning a middle and a end. One of the most important genre was the BILDUNGSROMAN which presented the story of a character from infancy to adulthood.. > charlotte bronte. The narrator is omniscient and it as a task: to work as a guide and an instrument for analyzing the psychology of the characters. Narrators are in 1st and third person. * There are EARLY VIC. NOVELIST: that rep society as it was. They described injustices of the period but they didn’t condemned them. C. DICKENS. *

letter is very sarcastic but also very funny … starting with the first words of the letter QUOTE lines 1-5) To start with, let us speak about Mrs Dunbar’s family. This family is made up of Mrs Dunbar, the author of the newsletter and also the narrator, her husband, Mr Clifford Dunbar and their three children. We don’t know much about this family except that Mr Dunbar fought in the Vietnam war as an American trooper (QUOTE lines 9/11/14) and that he was married twice : once to Doll Babcock and

The Bluest Eye : text analysis of the two prologues The Bluest Eye is a novel written in 1970 by Toni Morrison. The narrator, Claudia, tells the story of herself and Pecola Breedlove, a young girl who came to live with them when her family fell apart. The novel’s first striking particularity is its beginning – the story starts with two mysterious prologues. The first one resembles a children’s primer, while the second one is an introduction to some of the key elements of the plot – the main characters

Capitol) ou dans une structure impersonnelle (It was as if…). En profiter pour revoir les pronoms personnels sujets, compléments dans des phrases types que les élèves auront mémorisées. ▶ Distinguer les personnages effectivement présents 4. The narrator is an Englishman so he is not familiar with the size of the monuments. He and his French girlfriend have a critical view of this city because they do not live there and they are not used to seeing such huge monuments. B. Great Americans, p. 35

have also colloquial English with “dumb luck” line 10, line 16 “ bum”, l. 28 “ a funk”. When he lists all the possibilities, we have a lot of models “would”, “could”. All these models show us that we are leading with his imagination.  Part 2 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 tries to spend the night there.

the dynamic of movement and stability. The musicality of the heptasyllabe plays with the inner semantic symmetries: «Vienne la nuit/ sonne l’heure//Les jours s’en vont /je demeure» of which the last clause identifies the narrator with the bridge, which also remains. The narrator is, however, also identifiable with the Seine flowing beneath, in that the river maintains its identity though is constantly shifting, moving and transforming. In this way the self is shown to be both eternal and ephemeral

Perilogue The narrator sees two women sitting in the kitchen, one preparing the meal, the second sitting immobile in the chair. The narrator realizes that the droning, moaning sound comes from the second woman sitting in the chair. Ethan introduces the women to the narrator - the tall woman is his wife, Miss Frome, and the other, Miss Mattie Silver. When the narrator returns to the Hales', Mrs. Hale is surprised to learn that he had spent the night at the Frome farm. She surmises that the narrator must

the characters of his short story : "Luz", an italian forename, "He", "Padua", on the roof of a building. He implies that they stay alone by separating them in the text of other characters : "He & Luz could hear them below on the balcony". If the narrator seems to be external, he adopts nevertheless the point of view of the man. On one hand because he does not name him, does not identify him, on the other hand because the last sentences are like the description of the scene which this man sees. But

and can be very cheeky and naughty. Narrator Point of View: Both books are written at the first person(Zoe John) (Madison Ellie) and they are both written in the past. My book is a story within a story because in the book she is writing down there adventures in the past since they have all ready lived them in a book so that no one forgets what they did.We know her point of view of the arguments and what she felt during the war. John is the narrator and he is telling a story about his dog