miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2015

Narrative Techniques Practice



Narrative Techniques Practice

Practice 1:

The extract of “The Gods My Be Crazyis written in a third-person point of view because we can appreciate how the narrator is not referring to an story that is happening to him neither the reader of the story is the narrator so that leave us with the idea that the narrator is an outsider of it, this can be seen when he says things like “Humans avoid” or “they lived” with this the narrator is leaving him as an outsider of the story,the things he is telling. With this type of point of view it generates in the reader a sensation of confidence, because the narrator tells what he is observing and it should not have any feeling or “incompleteness” of the situation, is (in a way) more objective. For the other part, the narration of this text is the indirect narration, because the narrator is not talking to us directly (direct narration) neither is telling the story in first person (frame narration) and it can be appreciate how a story is being tell (a characteristic of this type of narration). The effect that this technique makes in the reader is that, as well as the idea of objectiveness, what is being tell is a mere description of things, it has no space for subjective and not true ideas. In the other technique we have the type of speech in this case there are not dialogues of characters and there are not specific ones so that leave us with the free indirect speech, the narrator is just describing things. The effect that free indirect speech makes is a one of (again) objectiveness, he is not rewriting thoughts he is just “writing” (saying exactly what they thought) thoughts. Finally, the tense in which this text is written is present, he is telling exactly what is happening, “They live”, with this type of tense is (as all the others) generating the idea of objectiveness. In summary all the techniques presented in the text are pointed to make the felling that the tell is reliable.

Practice 3 With Angelo Menchise:
Today, as every other day in the city, there were scenes of crime around the city. There must be, there need to be a protector for the people, there has to be a guardian for the humans and there is not other being more qualified than us, the so called “humans best friends”, dogs - Doge said to his fellow dog comrades.

We must not trust their safety their own, they are the ones that damage themselves, they are the ones that can not help each other, they are the ones that are destroying their own raze. That’s why we, comrades, shall go tonight and save the world, save the humans from their own destruction. - As long as the speech went each dog claim Doge with barks.

After the speech, one of the bravest and most respect dogs, Rocco came on front of the leader and others, then he said - Dear friends, as you know I’m in charge of our operations tonight and I’ll assign the roles that each of you will do, but I would like to remind you why we decide to fight against crime and why Doge is our leader. I’m sure I talk for all of us when I say that we love our owners, they are our lives, they are our reason for living, they are our reason for fighting. I don’t have to remember you the pain Doge passed when his owner died because of one of the godawful humans, I don’t have to remember you how he, even with all the pain it conveys that, stood up and help all of us. He did not succumb in front of that and decide to fight against it. And so we wanted to, and so we want and so we will! He decided to be strong, to don´t give up, and to fight back!!.

All the dogs that were in the meeting in the cold street of Detroit were very excited and motivated to fight. Then Rocco and Doge started dividing the dogs on groups. The function of this groups where to patrol certain parts of the city, that they previously marked during the day.

Doge wanted to deal with one of the godawful humans alone, he desired to avenge his owner, he couldn’t protect her when she got attacked. That is the reason he was alone or so he thought. Secretly Rocco asked his best friend Buster to follow Doge, because (not only Rocco) all of the comrades were worried about him, they believed that he could do something stupid in order to fulfill his role as avenger of his owner.

Suddenly there was a scream of a woman, Doge went as fast as he could go into the direction of the scream. When he got to the place, he saw a woman crying on the floor and a man running with a handbag. This was a big shock for him. - What should I do? Help the woman or chase the bad guy? I don’t know. - he thought.  His instinct was telling him to go and chase the guy and he decided to ran into the man, but in the last second he saw his owner touching the woman arm, that broke his heart (a tear was spilled) and he started running into the woman while thinking - There was no point in avenge her, there was nothing to avenge because that would only create a vicious circle, chaos bring chaos, so killing the man will only make suffering to others and that will create the same thing over and over - When Doge started comforting the woman Buster ran past them and shouted- I’ll catch him. Thanks to Buster help and Doge decision the man was captured and Doge learnt a lesson for life, as well as obtaining a new owner.

In other sector of the city, one of the bigger groups composed by nine dogs was in charge of the crimes that involve big groups of humans, the ones that are dedicated to make big disasters. The nine dogs were: Two puppies, Tris and Bella, that were new in the group, where there in order to learn how the others acted in this kind of situation, and the other were adult dogs, Tobias, Emma, Oliver, Abby, Jake, Koneko and Cassie. Even though they were in charge of big groups they witnessed the robbery of a car, made by a single man. The puppies were away of the action so they couldn’t be damaged. The others ran into the theft and when he saw that he did something the dogs were not expecting, he went directly into the puppies direction. The group panic and started running with all their might. For their relief the theft notice the puppies and made an attempt to avoid them, making the car overturned. With this the thief was captured.

Another group, was composed by the strongest dogs of the herd, Rocco and Oscar. They were always anxious for dealing with big guys. While they were walking through the center of the city they saw one Mini Market, named “Rule 34”, that had a lot of commotion, so they went to appreciate what was happening, it was an assault. They entered through the back door and jumped into the paying desk to surprise the two thieves. They were strong enough and aggressive to drive them away the store...

Suddenly you feel a ticklish sensation on your hand and wake up. You see to your left your fellow dog Doge... Wait a second? - You think of what you dream. What was it? It was too real to be true, it didn't appear to be a dream. The words “not a dream” flow through your head. Was it a dream? Was it real? You'll never know.


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