Narrator

iambic pentameters, but the ninth that is an alexandrine; because it is an heroic poem and the Spenserian stanza was the most suitable. Another common aspect is the narrative technique: a third person narrator that follows Childe Harold; however, in the last two cantos the identity of the narrator and the hero’s one overlap when there is something important and subjective to say. Language: very different from William Wordsworth one, it is a complex language; the word choice follow the Augustan

The narrator is a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert. The next day he was awakened by a small voice that asks: “Please ... draw me a sheep!” Very surprised by this apparition, the aviator drew, but none of its sheep is appropriate to the small prince. The narrator draws the case of the sheep by telling him that the sheep is inside. The Small Prince is this time satisfied and notice that the sheep had fallen asleep. Day after day the Small Prince tells his story to the narrator. He lives

months in India…” • Approximate age: (l. 1) “… in 1962…” + (l. 4) “… a nineteen-year-old…” The narrator was born in 1942 or 1943. The text was published in 2005. Adam Hochschild was 62 or 63 when he wrote this essay. 3. Part 1: from l. 1 to l. 25: “An arrogant country” / “The dark side of the USA”… Part 2: from l. 26 to the end: “The most vibrant civil society” / “The bright side of the USA”… 4. The narrator understood that his country was on the wrong side in South Africa, i.e. that the USA supported

the idea that a character is “a center of consciousness”that is to say at the same time a mirror, but an imperfect mirror of what happens around it. Le premier à s’essayer à un narration homodiégétique. From the omniscient narrator to the figure of the homodiegetic narrator. Henry James, The portrait of a lady, 1881 Vocabulary: Brought/ to bring: amener To crowd: entasser Foreground: premier plan To set: poser, placer, fixer To set in: survenir, surgir, se déclarer. Live : dynamique

given in the excerpt, that is the community’s, the narrator’s and the author’s . Then we’ll focus on the television and its roles. First, let’s consider the different points of view we’re acquainted with in the extract. To start with the narrator, he is a small child who lives with his parents as we can read on line 12, and who goes to school with the neighbor ‘s children (line 34) even if not in the same form. We don’t read about any brother or sister. At the beginning, we learn that he

months in India…” • Approximate age: (l. 1) “… in 1962…” + (l. 4) “… a nineteen-year-old…” The narrator was born in 1942 or 1943. The text was published in 2005. Adam Hochschild was 62 or 63 when he wrote this essay. 3. Part 1: from l. 1 to l. 25: “An arrogant country” / “The dark side of the USA”… Part 2: from l. 26 to the end: “The most vibrant civil society” / “The bright side of the USA”… 4. The narrator understood that his country was on the wrong side in South Africa, i.e. that the USA supported

daydreams, the possibility that my high-school experience might differ on my account of not being white did not arise” (l.29-30)   D –   1) it = allowing the narrator to watch films alone          2) we = the narrator and Scott          3) You = the narrator          4) my = the narrator          5) me = the narrator   E –    1) impatient = eager (l.6)          2) did not know = were unaware of (l.10)          3) crowded = packed (l.14)          4) exciting = thrilling

before the storm We can notice that this tragic story starts with an ordinary situation. The narrator starts describing a very quiet situation. He wants the reader to feel in a peaceful atmosphere. As quoted (l.13) “It was late, and trains were slow, he was all alone on the platform, only half awake, thinking, he said, of her.” Then this atmosphere is going to be disturbed by a sound. The narrator introduces progressively the two others characters to make the reader feel on Richards’ place.

the text. (one blank = one word) When the narrator invited his neighbours for (1)………………………. they (2) ………………………. to his house. He then realised that most Americans are (3)……………………….. He only (4: two words) ………………………. the region a few years ago and still goes everywhere (5: two words) ………………………. II - DETAILED COMPREHENSION A- Right or Wrong? Answer and justify by quoting the text. 1- A survey was done to determine how often Americans walk. 2- The narrator lives in a big city. 3- It's impossible

come to writing in order to escape “the power of a destructive mother”, although also as “a quest for the nurturing mother” in order to search for a lost world in their existences. This differs from the relationship and interplay shown between the narrator and her mother in Annie Ernaux’s La femme gelée. Although still not completely influential and all-powerful, we can interpret the mother as more of a guiding force to her daughter in the latter novel, as opposed to “an implacable and ultimately tragic