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to survive, with his intelligence and courage). Robinson Crusoe, (Defoe’s first novel) is the most important example of adventure novel. The story is told by a first-person narrator, that gives an air of authenticity to the story told from a fixed point of view, and is a fake autobiography. The ability of Robinson to survive in the lost island represents the wit and the claim of reason and common sense of Augustan Age: these

Last Orders was adapted for film by Sony Pictures Classics in 2001, directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. In 2003 Swift's novel The Light of Day is due to be published. Plot Summary Waterland begins with the narrator Tom Crick describing his childhood growing up in the low-lying fens area of eastern England. His father is a lock-keeper, and they live in a cottage by the River Leem. One day in July 1943, the drowned body of a local boy, Freddie Parr, floats down

What is human about the exchange between Black Beauty and Ginger? What aspects inspire pathos? With this excerpt, Anna Sewell, the narrator, succeeds in underlining the human side of the exchange between Black Beauty and Ginger. In fact, at the beginning of the text, the Ginger’s description is done like a human’s description with the body’s vocabulary: “knees”, ”legs”, ”neck”, ”eye”, ”face”… . Moreover, it is interesting to note how human’s feelings are presented in the whole text: first

ridge” and l.82, l.86, l.91 The landsape is really different.Then “new” is associated with “face”, thus he is going to meet new people. He has left a world he knew well to start a new life. c) Jim’s romantic view We get to meet the narrator here, “I” l.1 and his romantic view of the world. He is an adult writing what happened to him as a chikld. L.2 “ten”, when he was ten. L.6 he has no experience of the world “Jake’s experience of the worls was not much wider than mine”. He is

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page 14 1. Complete Type of document an extract from a novel / a book; a dialogue, a conversation Source/origin a novel entitled 'American Dreams' Author John JAKES First published in 1998 Type of narrative a third-person narrative (narrator?) Setting an office, in Chicago (USA) at the turn of the 19th century Number of characters present two Their first names Joe and Fritzi Their surname/family name CROWN How they relate to each other they're a father and his daughter 2.

This text in a an extract of the news paper "The Toronto star", and was written in 2002 by the famous American producer Joe Eszterhas. In fact the author was the film director of many sleazy movies like "Basic Instinct". In this extract, the narrator shows us how cigarette had a particular place in his films, being himself a big smoker. But when he was diagnosed with throat cancer because of smoking he changed his mind becoming a staunch anti-smoking militant. In this article he seems to feel particularly

Henry James - Daisy Miller | Summary The novel is divided into two parts: the first one takes place in Vevey, Switzerland, the second one takes place in Rome. The narrator introduces the city of Vevey in a very positive way, saying that it has the « characteristices of an American watering place ». The plot is set « two or three years ago » during a summer morning, and the reader soon discovers the main character, Winterbourne, who has come to visit his aunt. This 27 years old young man

The tea-shop (small Island, pgs176-178) Comprehension: 1) The narrator is Airman Gilbert, a colored Jamaican man. The impact that this has on the scene is that it allows the reader to see through the eyes of a man of the narrator’s social status. 2) Their relationship is sort of platonic, it seems like Gilbert is in love with her as shown “…this pretty woman began to smile. I was then that she had gently laid her hand on my arm.” But Queenie we feel like she is playing around with all her

reader should know, Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, Hyde being the evil side of Jekyll. Hyde committed a series of crimes among which murders. A lawyer, Mr Utterson decided to lead an investigation in order to find Hyde and sue him. He is the narrator of the novel: he partly witnesses the events and has recourse to letters to unwind his investigation about the mysterious connection between his friend and client, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In this extract, Utterson is paying a visit to Dr Jekyll. He