Literary Analysis Of Blood And Guts In High School

Blood and Guts in High School is a combination of graphic sexual imagery, disjointed narrative, cut-ups and savage condemnations regarding the political and social order. Acker repeats various pages of texts throughout the novel; she also fuses many literary forms in the same page, all the while breaking up the text using illustrations. The novel uses a blend of autobiographical, historical, as well as literary allusion in portraying various themes like identity, gender, myth, sexuality and corruption. On the other hand, The Beauty of the Husband narrative shows the narrator’s obsession and craving for her husband, whose salient feature is beauty itself. The narrative explores beauty, love, desire, and betrayal because the story is about marriage, and the seductive power of beauty that persists even when the relationship between two individuals goes sour. Excessive inwardness is a feature in poetry and is heavily used in the narrative because the author conceals truth beneath irony, which is also an essential feature in poetry. The aim of the essay is to scrutinize narrative techniques employed in the two narratives and addressing the various issues in the novels. The paper explores the techniques employed in The Beauty of the Husband in telling the story of the protagonist’s husband’s lies and adulteries, which help propel the fictional narrative. Moreover, the paper evaluates the various techniques used in the narrative Blood and Guts in High School in illustrating the various themes in the novel.
Blood and Guts in High School
The novel, Blood and Guts in High Schoo,l thematically duplicates various arguments linked to gender analysis, and interpellations with regard to global capital and approaches involved in subject formati...

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... brilliant characters in the narration (Foltz 172).
In conclusion, the two narratives use different techniques in establishing their themes and in trying to resolve identified issues. In Blood and Guts in High School, the author employs various techniques that include appropriation, sexuality, deconstruction and fragmentation in the narrative, while exposing societies unjust political and sexual issues that are derived from the realities of late society. The Beauty of the Husband is propelled by techniques of poetry and prose in presenting the issues in the narrative. The Beauty of the Husband explores love, desire, and beauty’s seduction in metaphors, and riddle like puzzles that captures the readers’ attention in solving the message at hand, with a writing so sophisticated and elegant, it appears to be like no other fictional essay in twenty nine tangos created