Narrator

Grant Wiggins - The protagonist and narrator of the novel, an elementary school teacher in his mid-twenties. Grant is intelligent and willful, but also somewhat hypocritical and depressed. A life spent in a segregated, racist community has made him bitter. He has no faith in himself, his society, or his church. He does not believe anything will ever change and thinks escape is the only option. He fears committing himself to a fight he cannot win. This defeatist attitude makes him shun responsibility

society subjugate women by men : women’ bodies represent objects used for a « better » world. They are called handmaids and they bear barren couples’ children with the aim of rising reproduction rates and improve Gilead policy. What’s more, the narrator, Offred, had to take the role of a handmaid and this excerpt focuses on her relationship with her Commander : we found it interresting to show how a woman can reach a wayout to submission. To show that, we’ll first underline that control gives place

... I hold the view that ... I am of the opinion that ... It is my impression that ... I guess that ... USEFUL WORDS TO EXPRESS YOUR AGREEMENT • I agree with you / him ... I share your / his / her view. • (The author / the narrator / the protagonist / etc.) is right • He is quite right / absolutely right • I have no objection (to ...). I approve of it. I have come to the same conclusion I hold the same opinion. We are of one mind / of the same mind on that question

St Louis& Merry-go-round The document is composed of two text. On the one hand, there is St Louis, written by Marie Arana. It was published in 2001 and it's an extract from American Chica. The narrator is a young girl whose name is Marie and who's 7 years old. On the other hand, there is Merry-go-round, written by Langston Hughes. The two texts deal with segregation which at the time prevailed in the USA, and it's told by a child. First, I will quickly talk about the historical context, then

designate groups of young people who have been affected by economic shocks and often involved in lengthy periods of unemployment after the end of the First World War. The story is set in Long Island and New York City during the summer of 1922. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is a young man from the Midwest who comes to New York City for business after having fought during The First World War. He rents a single-story house between two mansions in West Egg, one of the wealthiest communities in Long Island

sont partagés Introducing a newspaper article : Présentation d’un article de journal A summary : un résumé To sum up : résumer An account : un compte rendu A journalist : un journaliste A columnist : un chroniqueur An author : un auteur A narrator : un narrateur An editorial : un éditorial A report : un reportage A title : un titre A headline : une manchette A graph : un graphique A chart : un tableau A paragraph : un paragraphe An excerpt from = an extract from : un extrait de The

about a young teenage girl who is expecting a baby. She is not married, she could very well become a single mother, but she has made a big decision: she is going to keep her baby, she’s not going to abandon her child or abort. The name of the narrator and the name of the main protagonist are not mentioned. Any young girl in the same situation could easily identify with her. In her monologue, she is addressing her father. She wants her father to help her. In fact, she wants him to give her

130, 1 “the banging and booming” imitative alliteration; l.3 parenthesis “(always assuming that I ay on my back…)” ruins the truth illusion: H makes up the narrative as it goes (or simply reminds reader of circumstances? Doubt is shed, unreliable narrator); l.4 “my viler side” ambiguous, both concrete and abstract, physical and spiritual; “nebulous haunch of my bed-mate”: nebulous, “cloudy, foggy, misty, dank. … cloudlike, hazy, vague, indistinct, formless.” Lo’s body true to her name, “Haze”; indistinct

different from the empirical individual, William Wordsworth, who wrote the poem. (There may well be strong connections between what happens to the speaker or narrator of the poem and what happened to Wordsworth at some moment in his life. But a poem written by an old man may have a young speaker and vice versa. And, notoriously, the narrators of novels, the characters who say ‘I’ as they recount the story, may have experiences and make judgements that are quite different from those of their authors

Monologue», Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade de Colorado (1993); Leon Edel: The Modern Psychological Novel (1954); Erwin R. Steinberg: The Stream of Consciousness Technique in the Modern Novel (1979); Erwin R. Steinberg: «Point of View, the Narrator(s), and the Stream of Consciousness», Approaches to Teaching Joyce’s Ulysses (1993); Melvin Friedman: Stream of Consciousness: A Study in Literary Method (1955); Robert Humphrey: Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel (1954); Manfred Smuda: