Tijuana Straits Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn, has many techniques implemented into the book. Nunn creates numerous themes and situations that can result in wide variety of lessons that ranges from environmental issues to life lessons. Nunn uses certain techniques in this book to introduce characters and situation into the plot. The way he apply his themes is very powerful but there is a more effective way of catching the reader’s attention. Nunn’s way of writing is unique making it confusing at times, but it has its moments where it would be harder to follow if he had not done it the way he did. In Tijuana Straits, Nunn gives the reader’s multiple view points from the characters. He applies the elements of having a third person omniscient …show more content…
It appears to be with every character introduced comes with a problem, leaving the reader to wonder what they will do to resolve their issue and how they will fit in the story line. For example, Magdelena’s issue was the company contaminating the water and inhumane acts of the factories in Mexico. As Magdelena tries to bring a solution to the problem she is attacked and ends up in a stranger’s house in America making the situation harder for her to fix. Armando’s problem was the casa de mujer, trying to figure out where his wife has gone and what happened to their child. He goes on a quest of his own to bring “justice” to the death of his child but really it is for him to feel like he has a purpose in the world. Most of the characters in the novel have important roles but some just live longer than the others. Some comes from are usually people who experience ego-death and come back to have a purpose in the world like Fahey, a meth addict who lives on a worm farm with a trouble past. Neither a future nor motive to improve his current life style until Magdelena makes an appearance in his life. A person who wasn’t going anywhere in life suddenly has a purpose. Giving a person who had no value, value in the book gives the reader a deeper connection with the character. Nunn knows how to capture peoples’ attention with all sorts of different techniques, but most of them surround the idea …show more content…
The environment is becoming worse as years goes by. Mostly due to the factories that are created. It is bad enough the companies go out of America to exploit the civilians of other countries by giving them low wage jobs who don’t care about their health. Viewing employees as expendables is a terrible way to run a business as there is no personal connections and no care for any of them. Having a factories cause pollution and treat their employees as animals is an issue to bring light on. Nunn tries to put us in a situation where we will understand the issue an hope to bring something of it. He could have kept that subject more prominent in the story as I often forgot about that was the reason why she tried to get the papers backs. The story from a readers stand point just seems like a revenge plot with a hint of a love
As the Joad family faces the same trials that the turtle faces, and as the desperate farmers have to deal with car dealerships, the intercalary chapters help to set the tone of, as well as integrate the various themes of The
Author’s Techniques: Rudolfo Anaya uses many Spanish terms in this book. The reason for this is to show the culture of the characters in the novel. Also he uses imagery to explain the beauty of the llano the Spanish America. By using both these techniques in his writing, Anaya bring s the true culture of
...ing identity to the point where it no longer exists. This identity can be lost through extreme devotion, new experience, and immense tragedy. Relationships with the most meaningful companions impact both main characters, Elie and Frederic. Due to the events they must encounter alongside loved ones, Elie and Frederic change completely, losing the identity that once existed. The most impactful events of any life are those that involve struggle and tragedy. Any tragic event that one encounters can significantly alter the purpose of life forever. Tragic events such as taking away what one may hold dearest, such as a loved one in the cases of Elie and Frederic. This type of loss can create a saddened, purposeless life in all humans.
3. Point of view: The novel is written in third person. The novel is written in the past tense. The narrator is omniscient and mainly sticks to who the chapter is focused on in the novel. There are no shifts of view. The author achieves a voice that knows what each of the characters are feeling, sensing, hearing that it gives the novel a better experience in reading it. Hi...
While many still focus on the simple writing and the accessibility of the novel, each group can think about the textual and contextual aspects of Mango Street which then affects and effects the varying opinions of what the novel “means.” Reader responses to this novel include the ethnic focus intended by Cisneros, but also has a highly personal communicative perspective that evokes a highly personal response from readers. She does not hide her message in language, but embraces the language of a neighborhood or group of people. Cisneros uses the slang, monologues, and what she considers the most un-poetic language of real people in her novel to create a novel that was different and diverse from most novels one may find in a library or book store. The tone and point of view of her novel have been a big influence in the relatability of the novel because readers can feel close and personal to the narrator. There is a sense of immediacy and intimacy between readers and characters.
Often in novels the author 's use of style, technique, and structure create a greater meaning in the novel. In Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, the use of style, technique, and structure work in tandem to emphasize Hang’s journey to find her own individual purpose. By using circular writing, symbols, and setting, Huong establishes the theme that one must find one’s own purpose.
Maryse Conde’s novel Segu tells the vivid story of a family hurtled into the chaos of a rapidly changing world. Conde does a phenomenal job of putting readers into the mindset of her many colorful characters allowing readers access to thoughts and motivations behind these characters’ actions. The story is exceptionally intricate and yet the individual stories all feel interconnected back to the Traore family who are the focus point of the novel. Various themes all play a part in the telling of Segu. From religion to the transatlantic slave trade, from family to commerce, all these themes come together to form a story that ultimately spans cultures, continents, and centuries. This paper will be focusing on the themes of family and religion.
The eternal endeavor of obtaining a realistic sense of selfhood is depicted for all struggling women of color in Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands/La Frontera” (1987). Anzaldua illustrates the oppressing realities of her world – one that sets limitations for the minority. Albeit the obvious restraints against the white majority (the physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico), there is a constant and overwhelming emotional battle against the psychological “borderlands” instilled in Anzaldua as she desperately seeks recognition as an openly queer Mestiza woman. With being a Mestiza comes a lot of cultural stereotypes that more than often try to define ones’ role in the world – especially if you are those whom have privilege above the “others”.
The way that Lida breaks his work down eases the reader into the world of Mexico City, with all of its nuances and subtexts, little by little. The format that he chose for the chapter arrangement works particularly well. By interspersing very short stories of his various experiences in taxicabs and tequilas and colorful characters, with longer, more technically informative chapters written in a tone of journalist at work, Lida unfolds his analysis of Mexico City in a non-linear manner. In fact, it is quite the opposite. In his book, there is no beginning or end, only now, what was, and what might soon-to-be. By using this ...
In the beginning of the story, a certain quotes foreshadows these events. The man speaking to the Senator says, “ And no one could have foreseen the consequences, no one, not even if we’d gone out and generated a hundred environmental impact statements- it was just one of those things, a freak occurrence, and there’s no defense against that”. This shows in the beginning before going into detail, that they do something which causes other “ freak occurrences” to happen as an effect. They say no one could have predicted it, but when you make decisions you
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Within his writing, Nam Le achieves autonomy by expressing authentic traits through the presence of the novel’s characters. In Le’s novel The Boat, the author introduces key behaviors and personas within the first story of the narrative. Though he could approach culture from a Vietnamese perspective, the writer offers a transnational impression throughout the story. By including various characters in numerous roles, Nam Le appropriately applies and articulates the title of his first story, “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” which focuses on the ideas of lineage, identity, and inspiration.
The vantage point of which Franz Kafka writes this novel is narrated in two parts: first-person narration, and a third-person limited narration. The story is told by an omniscient narrator , meaning
Later, the article retells the story and argues about the meanings behind the settings of Midnight Robber, such as 'Granny Nanny' and 'eshu.' She saw those as metaphors of slavery towards blacks. As the essay goes on, the New Half Way Tree is also under the thinking of the author. At the end of the essay the author analysis different decorporealizations of Tan-Tan in the novel.