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Readers expect resolutions to the conflicts that arise during the course of a tale. Compelling narratives use literary tools like purposeful digression to create suspense and to introduce the element of surprise. The key to a good narrative is balancing the right amount of digression or tension with the right amount of progress toward the end.
A narrative structure usually progresses from a state of stasis, through a disruption of the stability, and at the end returns back to a point of equilibrium accompanied by a deeper level of understanding. "Epistemophilia," or the desire to know, is what drives readers to stay with the story. The end of a story usually provides answers to questions that are raised during the course of the narrative and especially during the period of disruption.
However, the literal ending of a story is not necessarily the answer; the answer may be cloaked in...
Narrative theory suggests that stories are dual-layered. On the surface is the level of the story itself: the events linked together by time. Below the surface is the level of discourse, which is the act and the impact of telling the story as well as how the story is actually told. Therefore, one important feature of narrative is the relationship between the narrator and the listener or reader. A narrative is not an island; it is connected to both reader and writer, listener and teller. The point-of-view of the narrator in many cases determines the tone and meaning of story: whether the story is told in first-person or third-person, for example. Moreover, a narrator may employ an "implied author" who tells the story. Narratives also imbue the teller with power and can influence the thoughts and actions of the listener, which is why political propaganda relies on stories.
Conversely when there is dissension it forces more activity and effort, and risk onto a single member. This actually increases the risk of change not being as positive as it possibly could be. Another key lesson is accentuating the positive aspects of change and visualizing oneself at the end of the change, successful. This supports the concepts of activity and productivity being more focused on positive change than trying to
Much of the nature of the widespread use of alcohol at this time is cited by the author, who also notes the high rate of alcoholism among slaves, the way women drank in private so their family would not know, the relationship of alcohol use to social position, and so on. Drinking was only one factor marking social divisions, and it as one of the few that could be controlled.
While in high school, she worked as a waitress at a local diner. Most of the population was black, therefore there was little contact with white customers or employees. Margaret feels that she was socially isolated until the 1950s. She was not exposed to white culture; it was foreign to her. She was only exposed to black culture of the time. They were not allowed in certain stores, restaurants,
Voice & Identity in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" This essay discusses the book NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE: WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan (Editor) and Peter P. Hinks (Yale University, 2001). Frederick Douglass was an early-19th century American slave who escaped the South and found freedom in the North. Seven years after his escape, Douglass published "Narratives
According to Coble (2010), Chinese reporters found themselves unwilling to demonstrate their countrymen as helpless victims of the Japanese. Therefore, the narrative that pervaded the era in the form of "news" reports and statements of "fact" was often colored by a collective attempt to focus on the potential unity and strength of the Chinese as a nation. This is therefore a trend that persisted in the collective narrative of
Woolf / Women in Violence and War The current paper deals with the use of stream of consciousness and narrative technique by Virginia Wolf. The author has discussed how Woolf comes and goes in time and space to reveal her inside feelings, and why she used them especially in time of war and domestic violence. Much has been written about Woolf's use of the stream-of-consciousness technique used widely by other Modernist writers