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d'éternité japonaise suscité par ce spectacle. » (Pages 94-95) Bibliographie : - Booth, Wayne C. « Distance et point de vue ». Barthes, Roland & alii, Poétique du récit, Paris : Seuil, 1977, p. 59-84. - Chatman, Seymour. « Characters and Narrators. Filter, Center, Slant, and Interest-Focus », Poetics Today 7 (1986): p. 189-204. - Mauriac, François. Le romancier et ses personnages. Paris : Buchet, 1994.

town within commuting distance from London: this fits their distaste for the bustling and noisy life of the city -an overgrown garden: reminiscent of nature , once more in keeping with their distaste for big bustling cities, this reminds us of the narrator remarking that Harriet was probably more at place in a garden than at a party. -a large Victorian house: huge, “ three-storeyed house, with an attic full, full of rooms, corridors, landings”, l 13; “very large room”, l 46; “that great room”, l 60;

Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. And this is one of the most important contrasts with the protagonist of James Joyce in “Araby”. Phoenix Jackson is described and presented as a very old person with lot of courage and strength, when the narrator of “Araby” is described as young and teenage boy on his way to catch a “treasure” for the love of a girl. But his motivation and his love do not seem strong enough face to the several obstacles he encounters on his way. Love is certainly the main

enlighten the stories and invite the reader to read the stories once again, this time bearing the morals in mind. This function is clearly discernible by the use of demonstratives that send the reader back to the story. Perrault also uses two different narrators, one tells the conte and the other one tells the morals; the change of tone between the main story and the morals shows the intention of the author to attract his reader’s attention on this particular point. However, the morals sometimes do not

Behavior – Hazaras are considered lower than Pashtuns; one should be loyal to friends and family; one is expected to bring honor to one’s family; men are above women; one should put guests’ needs before one’s own Characters: Amir – The story’s narrator and protagonist. He is an Afghan man who had a privileged childhood in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul. The defining event in his life is his betrayal of his closest friend, Hassan. Amir lives in San Francisco from the age of eighteen

lien, de complicité avec le lecteur. Dans la même optique que la « private joke» , elle permet de rappeler à ceux qui en sont les auditeurs ou les lecteurs, un moment du passé, dans le cas de Fight Club et de l'article du Reader's Digest « when the narrator and Tyler Durden were still good friends» . L'un des reproches fait à l'époque au film est qu'il permettait par exemple de fabriquer du Napalm ou de la nitroglycérine si l'on suivait le procédé. Palahniuk donne une raison à cela. Il utilise, pour

novels also was certainly assisted by her time living in Bath. She was able to provide specifics about the intricacies of Bath society in a manner that illuminates personality traits of her characters without heavy-handed exposition on the part of the narrator. Austen's life in Bath was eventful as well as distressing. Although she did not have the degree of peace and quiet for her writing that she had had at Steventon, she did continue her work. Scholars are uncertain as to whether she began new novels

Summary and Analysis of Introduction (text 1)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 on a train and that they spent the journey reminiscing about their childhood in Nebraska. It is hot and dusty on the train, and it reminds them of the weather growing up on the frontier. According to

Flanders. This book is Alec's memoirs which he wrote in his cell in the trenches, waiting to be « shot at dawn » for disobedience. The passage stresses how lonely Alec was as a child, being an only child and growing without the love of his mother. The narrator in his cell wonders whether this loneliness was one of the tragic flaws that led him to his present situation. The adult tends to deny it but the portrait he draws of his parents is a severe indictement. Alicia Moore is depicted as a « twisted »*

somehow possible. In that respect the purpose of the brackets changes from indicating violence and death in “Time Passes” to violence and potential survival in “The Lighthouse” It is not particularly surprising that the novel lacks an omniscient narrator (with the exception of “Time Passes”). As the plot unfolds through shifting perspectives in each characters stream of consciousness, no clear guide exists for the reader. This means we can formulate our views and opinions only though character development