Analysis and Comparison of the Beginnings of Uncle Ernest and Brighton Rock
I have chosen to analyse and compare the beginnings of Uncle Ernest and Brighton rock. I have chosen to write about these two stories because they make a good contrast with each other as the author's different techniques create a number of different effects.
Both authors write with the technique of using a lot of description. Graham Greene, the author of Brighton Rock uses this technique to describe both the character and the setting. One effect this has on the story is that it helps to create an obvious contrast between the two. This shows the reader that the main character, Hale, is misplaced within his surroundings; he
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In contrast to these descriptions, in the setting the air is described as "fresh and glittering" and the sky is healthy. We get the impression that Brighton is a nice place to be; clean and peaceful and Hale doesn't fit in there. The author of Uncle Ernest also uses a lot of description at the beginning of his story, but in a very different way. Everything we find out about the place and person is unpleasant. The effect of this is that the character blends in with the background and no one really notices him. This is completely opposite to Hale in Brighton and the way he stands out like a sore thumb. The character's clothes are "dirty", a shave was badly needed, and "he hadn't washed" either. The setting mirrors this as he walks out of a public lavatory, a place generally seen as dirty and unpleasant, the gutters are "unswept" and there is rubbish all over the floor. This gives me the impression that Uncle Ernest isn't very important where he lives as he fits in with everything else. The description in this story also has the effect on the audience that we are getting to know him more personally as we find out so much. …show more content…
This leaves the reader wondering, whereas any questions the reader has about Uncle Ernest's' appearance are answered in the detailed descriptions of him.
Another technique used to help explain the stories is sentence structures. The styles are quite similar in both the stories. Graham Greene in Brighton Rock uses long sentences broken up with punctuation such as commas and colons. This has the effect that the story and action is going to move quite slowly. This effect is the same in Uncle Ernest as it also has long sentences split up with commas.
A technique that differs greatly in the stories is the way the authors keep the audience interested. I think that Greene does this well, as he uses unanswered questions to make us want to read on and discover the answers and he also uses careful vocabulary to build up the readers expectations of excitement or danger; the word "murder" in the first sentence has this effect. Uncle Ernest though, to me has little excitement because we find out all of the important details about
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