Reading and writing serve as gateways to understanding, empowerment, and connection, allowing individuals to explore diverse perspectives, articulate their thoughts, and shape the world around them. Drawing inspiration from my experience of reading in this module, particularly the prescribed text "Chicxulub" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, I've been motivated to explore innovative language and structure features in crafting my narrative titled The Hidden Journey. This informative statement explores the intentions and decisions that underlie a story that is motivated by the pursuit of truth in competing narratives. Examining the language choices such as motif and suspenseful pacing and structural devices like dual narratives. I also used real-world …show more content…
The protagonist's primary objective at first was to reach the waterfall, which draws them into the forest's depths in quest of exploration and adventure. Its alluring presence echoes the themes of exploration and curiosity present in "Chicxulub," symbolising the protagonist's desire to move beyond the ordinary and explore the unknown. The waterfall grows more and more visible as the main character makes their way through the forest, building the suspense and thrill around their adventure. There are parallels between the protagonist's emotional search for enlightenment and truth and the physical pursuit of the waterfall, implying a relationship between the two. However, the waterfall additionally symbolises a deeper meaning that the story's surface conceals. Truths are hidden by deception and secrecy, just as the waterfall is sometimes used as a hidden entrance for something else. The protagonist's mission to expose media bias and political objectives is paralleled by their journey to unearth the waterfall. These are trips that require courage, determination, and willingness to face harsh realities that might contradict beliefs and views. I think the waterfall motif in "The Hidden Journey" successfully adds depth and complexity to the story, acting as a symbolic illustration of the protagonist's emotional journey of self-discovery and truth-seeking, as well …show more content…
Driven by curiosity and the lure of discovery, the protagonist's journey through the forest is documented in one story line. The protagonist's reflections on the Palestinian struggle and how the media and political agendas distort truth are also scattered throughout the narrative. By juxtaposing the protagonist's individual search for the truth with the larger socio-political setting of Palestine, this dual narrative structure encourages readers to draw comparisons between the hidden waterfall and the conflict's hidden facts. Through this relationship, the story provides an in-depth examination of truth, discovery, and the challenges of navigating both personal and international environments. I think that by combining the protagonist's reflections on the Palestine issue with their actual travel, "The Hidden Journey" in a dual narrative successfully encourages readers to make connections between their own and other people's pursuit of truth, adding richness and complexity to the
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Last but not least, O’Connor confirms that even a short story is a multi-layer compound that on the surface may deter even the most enthusiastic reader, but when handled with more care, it conveys universal truths by means of straightforward or violent situations. She herself wished her message to appeal to the readers who, if careful enough, “(…)will come to see it as something more than an account of a family murdered on the way to Florida.”
These two stories hold components that are clearly differentiating, yet similar in the meantime. Having every story been composed in a third-individual account structure, the onlooker
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The story is an eye-opening look into the thoughts and feelings of an unnamed man who saw too much of his society and started asking questions. In the story, his quest begins when he hops on a motorcycle with his young son, Chris, a sharp but slightly confused boy. While Chris thinks that the trip is meant only to be a vacation on the back roads of America, his father knows that he is really taking this trip for himself. It is meant to be a period in which he can think about and piece together the events of his early life, a time in which he started to wonder about the faults of society, eventually driving himself insane. Their journey leads them through highways, roads, one lane country passes, and finally into beautiful pastures and mountains. It was during these extended rides and rest stops in nature that we see what this story is really about.
The change from differing mediums, novel and film, reveal characteristics and possibilities of narratives. Through the advancement of technology, modern writers
In traditional writing styles, the main element to give the story meaning is the narrative itself. However, with more modern and distinct styles such as the short stories written where the narrative is no longer the primary stylistic device, but the use of metaphors and distinctive different narrators applies meaning to the stories. Though it is easy to judge what is different from tradition as inferior, this change is no different than the rise of cubism in the art world. Even though initially many would comment on the art not being “real,” or in this case, the stories being poorly written, this style has even more of an effect. After
When writing literature, authors will adapt points of view to mold the perceptions of their readers. Three points of view that authors use to draw readers into their works of fiction are the limited perspective, the first-person perspective, and the objective perspective. Three stories will be examined and critiqued for their use of these narrative techniques. Of the three perspectives that will be examined, the first-person perspective is the most useful for sharing the authors’ vision.
With this concept, we can assess and place value on the stories presented in The Things They Carried. Yet, it is still not that simple. The reader is continually challenged to question what is real and what is imagined. The evaluation of each narrator is constant. While the protagonist continues to remind the ...
Narratives are an important part of an essay as they create a sense of tone needed to describe a story or situation with ease. If the narrative is not correct, it can leave a false impact on the readers or viewers because it lacks the main tone of the story. Having a perfect narrative can not only enhance a story, but it can also prove evidence. In her essay, “An Army of One: Me”, Jean Twenge provides some of the best examples of how narratives enhance a story and she also emphasizes on how the tone of storytelling matters on the impact that the story would have on its readers or listeners. Apart from Twenge, Tim O’Brien also focuses on how the narrative of the story can help in understanding the truth and falsity of the story in his essay, “How to Tell a True War Story.” In addition to O’Brien, Ethan Watters also emphasizes on the narrative of cultural progress in his essay, “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”, when he talks about the anti-depressants to be sold in Japan. All three authors agree to the fact that narrative, the art of telling a story or explaining a situation, has a major impact on the story and on how it is taken by the audience.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
In the simplest form, there is a basic structural pattern to narratives, as expressed through Tzvetan Todorov’s explanation of narrative movement between two equilibriums. A narrative begins in a stable position until something causes disequilibrium, however, by the end of the story, the equilibrium is re-established, though it is different than the beginning (O’Shaughnessy 1999: 268). Joseph Cam...
The story is the most powerful and most compelling form of human expression in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. Stories reside within every part of every thing; they are essentially organic. Stories are embedded with the potential to express the sublime strength of humanity as well as the dark heart and hunger for self destruction. The process of creating and interpreting stories is an ancient, ongoing, arduous, entangled, but ultimately rewarding experience. As Tayo begins to unravel his own troubled story and is led and is led toward this discovery, the reader is also encouraged on a more expansive level to undertake a similar interpretive journey. Each story is inextricably bound to a virtually endless narrative chain. While reaching an epiphanal moment, a moment of complete clarity, l is by no means guaranteed, by presenting Tayo as an example, Silko at least suggests there is fundamental worth in pursuing and creating stories.
A fundamental element of any story is the perspective of the narrator. It guides the point of view from which readers perceive and understand a story and greatly affects how a story is presented. As such, the perspective is crucial in determining how engaging a story is. First person narration, a narrative perspective in which the story is told first hand, has proven highly effective in making a story more compelling to read. Recently, it has become very popular in young adult fiction, as it can allow, when well-executed, for the reader to be better immersed in the story, increased suspense, and insightful reflection on the significance of events taking place. In Claire Battershill’s Circus short story Two Man Luge, first person narration is
Tavani (20015) gives his readers a glimpse into a few of the philosophical theories on the nature and value of privacy that offer an account of what privacy is, such as the right to control and protect information about oneself from other persons. And while the practice of gathering and exchanging student information occurs often in the online and traditional classroom for the purpose of informing, adjusting and individualizing instruction, contextual integrity acts as a necessary framework for expressing privacy expectations, and guides the instructor in responding to conflicts that arise between the protection of one’s privacy and interest in that information (Nissenbaum, 2004). This essay will examine a classroom scenario, where contextual integrity could risk being compromised, by applying Nissenbaum’s theoretical framework of contextual integrity. Helen Nissenbaum’s theory of privacy as contextual integrity looks to the context, or “sphere of life”, that the gathering and exchanging of information takes place in, rather than to the information itself.