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ENG 282, Prof Fitzgerald Essay # 1 Narrator & Character 2-3 pp. in APA Style Submit draft to Smarthinking by Week 4 (February 26th) Final draft due week 5 via Blackboard (Marchtt) 31'N
Choose one topic for your essay.
1. Characterization, Limited Point of View, Shoig, and Telling: Discuss the use of a third person partially omniscient narrator and how the narration develops the main character in one story from our list. Refer to Abrams' (1999) definition of the limited point view: "The narrator tells the story in the third person, but stays inside the confines of what is perceived, thought, remembered and felt by a single character (or at most by very few characters) within the story (p. 233). Discuss how the author develops the character by "showing" through dialog and action and through "telling" via narration. Refer to Abrams' definition of character: "Characters are the persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with particular moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and their distinctive ways of saying it—the dialogue— and from what they do the (i•- action" (Abrams, 1999, pp. 32-33). ()
2. The Identity of the Second Person Narrator: In his Glossary of Literary Terms, Abrams (1999) tells us that the second person narrator "may turn out to be a specific fictional character, or the reader of the story, or even the narrator himself or herself, or pot clearly or consistently the one or the other; and the story may unfold by shifting /between telling the narratee what he or she is now doing, has done in the past, or will or is commanded to do in the future" (p. 234). There are two stories on our reading list that rr employ second person narration. Discuss how the narrator functions in each story in relation to the Abrams quotation above and discuss the unique effect of second-person narration using examples from the two stories. e\i
3. Types of Character: Flat, Round, Stable and Changing: Identify a round character, a flat character, a stable character, and a changing character, each from a different story on our list. Refer to Abrams' (1999) definition of character (see quotation above in q. # 1). Refer also to Abrams' entry on flat and round characters: "A flat character..., Forster says, is built around 'a single idea or quality' and is presented without much individualizing detail, and therefore can be fairly adequately described in a single phrase or sentence. A round character is complex in temperament and motivation and is represented with subtle particularity; such a character therefore is as difficult to describe with any adequacy, as a person in real life and like real persons, is capable of surprising us" (p. 33). Also, refer to Abram's (1999) definition of stable and changing characters: "A character may remain essentially 'stable,' or unchanged in outlook and disposition, from beginning to end of a work... or may undergo a radical change, either through a gradual process of development ... or as the result of a crisis" (p. 33).
Reference Abrams, M. H. (1999). A glossary of literary terms seventh edition. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
NB: List each story you that you discuss in your essay individually on your references list. Cite your Literature book for all stories except the handouts. Cite The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka (linked on Bb) for "Before the Law" and "An Imperial Message." I will post the correct citation for "The Rockpile" handout ASAP.
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