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
This book is a story about 4 sisters who tell their stories about living on an island in the Dominican Republic , and then moving to New York . What is different about this book is the fact that you have different narrators telling you the story , jumping back and forth from past to present . This is effective because it gives you different view point’s from each of the sisters . It may also detract from the narrative because of the fact that it’s confusing to the reader . This is a style of writing that has been recognized and analyzed by critics . Julia Alvarez is a well- known writer and in a way , mirrors events that happened in her own life , in her book . Looking into her life , it show’s that she went through an experience somewhat like the sisters . I interviewed an immigrant , not from the same ethnic back ground as the sisters , but a Japanese immigrant . This was a very
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.
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 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 ...
Point of view is a literary device that can be often overlooked, and yet, it has a huge impact on the novel Bone Gap, as it changes how the reader imagines the story. This is due to the unique way that each character is seeing and living the moments that are written on the pages. The literary device of point of view is very important, as when it changes, so does perception, giving the reader a fuller or lesser understanding of what is truly going
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
important to the novel as a whole. as we can see at the beginning of
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
“Papi pulled me to my feet by my ear. If you throw up— I won 't, I cried, tears in my eyes, more out of reflex than pain” (307). As this scenario presents violence, it displays innocent Yunior’s response towards his abusive father as he pulls Yunior’s ears. In the short story Fiesta 1980, Junot Diaz depicts the life of young Yunior as he struggles with his Dominican family issues. Yunior was picked on the most in the family, especially from his dad. As Poor Yunior was the victim of his dad’s affair with a Puerto Rican woman, it affected him psychologically. Yunior suffers from the fact his beloved mother is being cheated on; therefore, he vomits as he rides his dad’s van, as his first ride in the van is linked to his first meeting with
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.
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.
on the novel. Similar to the novel “a hundred years of solitude” written by Garcia Marquez, both
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