Novel

phonemes/ intonation/ stressing of the words The introduction 1- Give the source of the extract “The passage I’m going to present is taken from the novel The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. It was published in 1988.” 2- Make a brief summary of the novel. 3- Situate the passage in its context. (information about the plot at that stage of the novel/ what happened earlier in the text/ Give all the necessary information to allow the person you’re speaking to to understand the situation) 4- Say what

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so many reflections upon Coetzee’s Waiting For The Barbarians we shall agree that the novel cannot be reduced to a mere historical illustration of South African troubles from whom it has disfranchised to become an allegory. An allegory which gives a symbolical representation of human history shaped by wars and oppression. As a consequence It is because of the author’s “allegiance with the discourse of the novels and not with the discourse of politics” that Waiting For The Barbarians has universal

psychological realism. We’ve talked about a change in the definition of realism because of a change in the definitions of the reality that the novel have to decribe, a change based on the discovery of new realities linked to the focalizer, the one who does the description. What is important to keep in mind is the fact that an entire part of the novel becomes preocuppied essentially with the mental situation/ state of the focalizer. An increased preoccupation with the mental state. Avec cet intêret

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

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 suspects him

MY ANTONIA, CHAPTER ONE This novel is entitled My Antonia. It was written by Willa Carter (1873-1947). She became famous through the success of the noves especially One of Ours, which won her a Pultizer Prize; and at the age of 9, she moved to Nebraska prairie. The novel was published in 1918. It focuses on the journey from Virginia to Nebraska. Jim Burden, who is ten years old, was an orphan and he was going to live in his grandparents in Nebraska more precisely in Black Hawk. First, I will

Eating animals. The controversial essay brought out only one month ago in France. The young american novelist (34 years old) is already known for two previous novels. The first novel is entitled Everything is illuminated. It’s about a young jewish who goes in Ukrania to track down the person that rescued his grand-father. The second novel wrote by Jonathan Safran Foer is called Extremely loud and incredible close. It tells the story of a little boy the father disappeared during the September 11 attacks

century, in reaction to the multiple changes created by society. ---The Decadent mouvement--- In Europe, there was a movement called naturalism, which seeks to introduce in novels the method of social sciences applied to literature, a more limited conception of realism, whose precursor was Emile Zola with his novel, Therese Raquin.     With the poems of Baudelaire (Appendix 1), there is the beginning of a new movement called "decadence". The poet became the precursor after his death. As its

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