Jaelyn Maddrey
1.Who is the narrator of the story? How is he or she connected to the story ( main character, observer, minor character)?
Throughout the novel The Chocolate War, the story was told in a third person point of view from various boys attending Trinity High School. Most of our narrations come from the main characters — Jerry Renault (who is our main character). “He's got Renault there, pale and tense as if he's facing a firing, squad…”(34.19) , Archie Costello ( leader of the school's hidden club that goes under the name of the Vigils), Obie ( another member of the Vigils; mostly seen as Archies servant), and Roland “Goober” Goubert ( Jerry’s best friend). Every person's points of view create the emphasis on the story and how life around them influences a situation that takes place.
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2.Where and when does the story happen?
How does the author describe the time and place?
The story seems takes place at an all boys catholic high school named Trinity. They are in the season of Fall and it takes place in the early 1970’s. Trinity is where our storyline takes place. At first it seems like a regular school but as we dig deeper into the minds and narratives of the students we discover Trinity’s dark secrets such the clubs,Brother Leon's unusual teaching technique, and the student hazing done by the school's secret group the Vigils.The time period which they are in is described by the lack of modern technology.
3. Select a passage that connects to your life in some way. Discuss what the passage means to you and how it connects to your life in a significant way.
“They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.” ( Chapter, Page ). This quote relates to my life because I am always told to be different but not too different from others. In the society we live in right now we’re always told to be different but not too different because once you have something they will take it back from you. We lack major creativity
and 4. What is the story really about? What does it show or attempt to teach the reader? The Chocolate Wars, a novel written by Robert Cormier is the story of how a boy disturbed the universe by simply not selling chocolates during the annual chocolate fundraiser event. It started off as a task assigned by the school's secret club, The Vigils. Jerry’s task was to not sell chocolate for the first 10 days of the sale. Even though the sale wasn't mandatory the boys attending Trinity all participated due to the manipulation done by the sadistic assistant headmaster, Brother Leon."…and let me point out that this sale is strictly voluntary, Trinity forces no one to participate against his wishes, this is the great glory of Trinity..." (Chapter 13, Page 44).After his 10 days were up Jerry continued to not sell chocolate. This caused an uproar in the school and started a huge war. Due to Jerry’s actions he was tormented, abused, and even teased by some of his fellow classmen. In the end, a fight takes place leaving Jerry to ride away in an ambulance. The theme behind The Chocolate War is disturbing the “universe”. Trinity was a place of power, manipulation, and fear which was created by The Vigils and Brother Leon. By Jerry not selling the chocolate she shifted the atmosphere and the natural order of things. In this book, Robert Cormier is trying to tell us that defying the government and changing the run of things isn't always the best choice.
The narrators of the story are the author Diana Alexander, and sometimes the characters, which narrates while dialogue. Alexander narrates the entire first paragraph, and her point of view in that piece is trusted, because she narrates the historical fact. The second paragraph though is from the point of view of the members of council, who is a character of the story and is also trusted. The member expressed his feelings, which should...
The first story I'm going to talk about is The Klondike gold rush and how this narrator affects it is going to be Klondike gold rush. In this story the P.O.V is third person but the main character talks about their opinion on the laws and the weather conditions the miners were in the narrator says and how hard it was to get or find any gold when mining "it was impossible to dig in the winter when temperatures could reach -60°F" so the story is mainly based on the narrators' opinion.
This novel is based in various High Schools in New York City. One of the main characters Paul, just moved to New York from Saskatoon, Alberta. This novel takes place in the mid 1980’s. At this high school, Don Carey High, none of the students or teachers care about anything that goes on within the school. They have no team spirit at all, there are no teams or clubs because no one shows interest.
1. Tita Quote: "Tita was so sensitive to onions, any time they were being chopped, they say she would just cry and cry; " (Pg. 5) Write-up: Tita is the main character of the story, also the narrator, who suffers from unjust oppression from Mama Elena, her mother. She is raised to excel in the kitchen and many entertaining arts where she is expected to spend her whole life taking care of her mother. This is following the family tradition that the youngest daughter takes care of the mother until she dies. With her frivolous wants, Mama Elena denies her marriage and happiness to any man especially Pedro.
The tryout is similar to warfare in a sense where it is every man for himself. If one person cannot keep up it will not limit the rest of the competitors to slow down. If you are falling behind you will get passed by everyone competing. It is very harsh and you need to be talented to make the team, likewise to how you need to be strong to survive in war. Like war, in the practice you need to show all you have. You must push every bit of energy out or you will not make the team.
It is now established that Yossarian is the central character and that most of the events told in the story are told in a third person narration from his view
In Louise Erdrich’s “Tracks';, the readers discovers by the second chapter that there are two narrators, Nanapush and Pauline Puyat. This method of having two narrators telling their stories alternately could be at first confusing, especially if the readers hasn’t been briefed about it or hasn’t read a synopsis of it. Traditionally, there is one narrator in the story, but Erdrich does an effective and spectacular job in combining Nanapush and Pauline’s stories. It is so well written that one might question as he or she reads who is the principal character in this story? Being that there are two narrators, is it Nanapush, the first narrator, him being a participant in the story, who tells his story in the “I'; form? Or is it Pauline, the second narrator, who also narrates in the “I'; form? Upon further reading, the motive for both narrators’ stories become more evident, and by the end of the book, it becomes clear that one character is the driving force for both of the narrators’ stories. This central character is Fleur Pillager. She in fact is the protagonist of “Tracks';. Even though she is limited in dialogues, her actions speak more than words itself.
As part of an assignment from the clique of school bullies, Jerry is supposed to refuse to sell chocolates for the school for a few days. However, when those few days end, Jerry realizes he does not want to blindly do what others' tell him and continues to refuse to sell the chocolates. This causes a backlash from both the school bullies and the man in charge of the school. The bullies start to orchestrate violent attacks against Jerry to try and get him to submit to selling the chocolates. The man in charge of the school keeps blackmailing the group of school bullies into tormenting Jerry (although the bullies are not really that opposed to tormenting the poor kid who they had given this mission to in the first place). Despite these attacks and threats against him, Jerry stands his ground and does not budge in his conviction to not participate in the school chocolate sale. However, it is difficult for one student to fight off not only a group of bullies but the man in charge of the school. In The Chocolate War, Cormier demonstrates the reality that plenty of students face on a day-to-day basis. The story shows how administrators can easily let their power for to their heads and how bullies can attack and threaten their way into power. In this novel, Cormier does not give an easy out or an inspirational underdog story. The Chocolate War is far from the typical high-school-is-the-best-time-of-our-lives fluff
A narrative is specified to amuse, to attract, and grasp a reader’s attention. The types of narratives are fictitious, real or unification or both. However, they may consist of folk tale stories, mysteries, science fiction; romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, and personal experience (“Narrative,” 2008). Therefore, narrative text has five shared elements. These are setting, characters, plot, theme, and vocabulary (“Narrative and Informational Text,” 2008). Narrative literature is originally written to communicate a story. Therefore, narrative literature that is written in an excellent way will have conflicts and can discuss shared aspects of human occurrence.
As I said before, the story basically presents one character, of whom we don’t know the name but he is also the narrator, we are also provided with a referenced character named Rans...
“The effect of the narrator's telling of this story upon the reader, as well as of the mariner's telling of his tale upon the wedding-guest, make narration itself fundamental (as it is in Frankenstein)” (Dr. Michael Rossington) Therefore, this essay will talk about the different narrators found in both literary works and its narrative structure.
The characters of this story would have to be the narrator, the clergyman, and of course Scortsby. The narrator helps in starting the story off, and the clergyman helps by explaining his point of view. Scortsby on the other hand, without talking, happened to be a very important part of this story. He is the main subject of the story from beginning to end.
"The role of the narrator influences the type of relationship we have not only with him or her but also with the story" (Landy 75). This quote was taken from our Literary Studies book in which we have read several stories concerning different styles of narration. Narration is one of the most important components of a story. The characters, plot, setting, and theme are also significant, however the narrator sets the mood and also the pace of the story. Two good examples of narration is the short tale The Zebra Storyteller by Spencer Holst and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. These are stories in which the narrators retain certain styles of narration. An outside book that we have not read is the fairy tale Cinderella. In these three works, the narrators have specific functions or duties to carry throughout the story.
Determine all of the story's conflicts. Determine the major conflict and state this in terms of protagonist versus antagonist.
Roald Dahl’s bestselling novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory took inspiration from Dahl’s love for candy as a young boy through his teenage years. From the young ages seven to nine, Dahl and his friends always went to a sweet shop on the corner of their street (Boy 68). Many of the whimsical inventions of the shop parallel those inventions seen in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Most notably, the Everlasting Gobstopper found in the sweet shop made a large appearance in the novel. In his autobiography, Boy, Dahl states “ Gobstoppers, costing a penny each, were enormous hard round balls the size of small tomatoes. One Gobstopper would provide about an hour’s worth of non-stop sucking and if you took it out of your mouth and inspected it