Sentences with phrase «person narration of»

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

Garland emulates the first - person narration of the novel with Kathy's voiceover in the film.

Not exact matches

For anyone still willing to allow Mailer literary significance, The Gospel According to the Son offers some interesting commentary on the techniques of first - person narration.

In telling Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov's story, she makes skillful use of several different voices, often a straightforward third - person narration, sometimes sliding on occasion in mid-paragraph to the first person.

The ultimate canon within the canon must in the end, however, be the person of Jesus and, in a broader sense, the narration of the saving acts of God.

The book begins with the person's graced nature - indeed «grace is somehow constitutive of human nature» and the way to come to an explicit understanding of this grace is through narration, through «telling the story».

In one case, interest in a person or event is assumed, as with the assassination of a president, and the format is simply the narration of the events involved.

We then see that it is within the story itself that Yahweh is designated in the third person as the ultimate actant — to use the category of A. J. Greimas3 — i.e., he is one of the personages signified by the narration itself and intervenes among the other actants of the goings on.

The narration of the stories of PANCHATHANTRA are attributed to a person named VISHNU SHARMA who took up the challenge at a royal court to improve the lot of some young princes, whose royal father was grieved by their idle and dissolute habits.

Even though persons Afoko mentioned in the interview and are said to have in - depth knowledge and indeed benefited from the training have so far maintained a deafening silence; Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide, Mr. Kweku Baako Jnr, has rubbished the suspended chairman's narration.

«In another narration, the noble prophet says: when a person curses something, the curse ascends to the heaven and all the gates of heaven are closed against it.

Learn how to get people involved in what you say Practice the art of narration - rehearse your poems and communicate.

I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie, doesn't shy from the darker turns her life took, the film's screenplay working from rumor and the unreliable narration of the people around her.

Through a first - person narration, Bialis makes much of the film about herself.

Even without the guidance of narration or a single story arc, it becomes clearer and clearer that the war on terror has unwittingly spawned another war: between police officers trained to fight like soldiers and the people they've sworn to protect.

Transistor is, by all outward appearances, a third - person action game with a story told primarily through narration (performed once again by Logan Cunningham) with a painterly art style reminiscent of Bastion.

Given the missed opportunities and forced efforts on DVD this week, The Missing Person (Strand) looks all the better, a low - key private - eye pastiche with a disaffected detective and a running stream of hard - boiled narration winding his way through a missing persons case that resonates with the losses and anxieties of 9/11.

That's useful, because although he repeatedly tells people that he hates to be thought of as stupid, the narration proves that he thinks more than he reveals.

He relies on precisely observed action, a sophisticated and spare technique (no one makes more of off - camera space and sound), and a direct, first - person narration to achieve a fully realized world of remarkable intensity in which our identification with the protagonist is total.

His decision to hand her the crucial voiceover narration — the sacrosanct domain of so many a private dick, that reflexive phallic fount of wisdom, wisecracks, and exposition — may go a long way toward determining how people react to this film.

It begins with a lengthy narration, describing how the world came to an end in two battles where most of the martial arts masters were killed (100,000 people died at the foot of Wu Tang Mountain).

The movie has a lot of information, and most of it is revealed through first - person narration that may as well be third - person considering the little personal information we receive from it.

Like in Jacob Tremblay's powerful debut performance in Lenny Abrahamson's Room (2015), Auggie's first - person narration emerges as the centrality of the film, and Chbosky recognises how Tremblay's soft - toned, yet childish higher - pitched intonation tugs the heartstrings.

According to Politiken, Eden was a first - person horror - adventure game featuring the narration of Antichrist star Willem Dafoe, and picked up where the film left off.

In succession, a narration begins from Raimez's (Jacob Vargas) point of view, who we later see in person as a security guard in the building in which the entire elevator fiasco takes place (if you notice, the building number is 333 — which is said to be a holy number).

In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan's unforgettable first - person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.

«The Handmaid's Tale» presents a dystopia; «Alias Grace» is a piece of postmodern historical fiction — one that incorporates fragments of actual historical record with first - person narration and epistolary structure.

The Welles connection is worth bearing in mind, in any case, because Apocalypse Now reeks of his influence: not only the portentous offscreen narration, first - person camera angles, and juicy larger - than - life character acting, but much of the chiaroscuro and other lighting effects of Vittorio Storaro's cinematography.

Indeed, most of the problems of «Living Boy» can be traced to the script, which is filled with silly dialogue and embarrassing narration that attempts to explain the nonsensical actions of people whom we care less and less about as the story moves along.

But the main narration is an invented spectral Van Gogh (Jacques Gamblin), who comments on people's view of him today and his mindset during his 37 years on Earth.

(Travis Wilkerson, 2017) projected video with live filmmaker narration; Crossroads Festival at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Gone, Gone Beyond (People Like Us, 2017) 10 - projector video installation; Grey Area, San Francisco, CA I'll Be Around (Jeremy Rourke, 2017) multi-video & 16 mm with live music performance; Artists» Television Access, San Francisco, CA Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 12 (Rick Prelinger, 2017) silent video with live filmmaker and audience narration; Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA The Maribor Uprisings (Milton Guillén & Maple Razsa, 2017) branching video with guided audience participation; Maine International FilmFestival, Waterville, ME Mosswood (Kerry Laitala & Voicehandler, 2017) dual - 16 mm projector performance with live music; Mosswood Chapel, Oakland, CA Night Country (John Davis & Joshua Churchill, 2017) triple - 16 mm projector performance with live music; Mosswood Chapel, Oakland, CA Temporal Cities (Lizzy Brooks & Radka Pulliam, 2017) projected video with 35 mm slides; Other Cinema at Artists» Television Access, SanFrancisco, CA What Is Nothing [After What is Nothing](Kristen Reeves, 2017) nonuple - 16 mm projector performance; San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA

And while the video starts with a pretty clear explanation of how copyright works (thankfully with the help of a narrator, rather than the cartoon characters» typical gibberish), when the video gets to the issues that most people probably do have questions about — particularly fair use and mashups — the narration runs into high speed, brushing over legalese like it's a joke.

In addition, audio described entertainment would be available to enable people who are blind to listen to the visual narration of movies and shows.

The first - person narration rotates among the three boys, and readers at first may have a bit of trouble keeping who's who straight.

Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first - and third - person narrations.

A version of this novel in first person narration from Isabelle's point of view would have been intensely revelatory.

Told in a haunting and powerful first - person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country - and what it takes to create a new home.

So strange a creature is Amir that in order to serve his frantic mind, Mandanipour eschews the formalities of first - or third - person narration in favor of a more unique approach.

But these handfuls of dazzling prose drown in the proliferation of thick, meandering, third - person passages that dominate the remainder of the narration, and with them perishes the gripping «whodunit» thread promised by the novel's opening pages.

First - person narration allows the reader to become completely engaged in the character's way of thinking.

After 6 novels narrated in the third person, Cornwell returns to first person narration by Kay Scarpetta for this book, which I found easier to read, although the constant analysis of Kay's feelings and borderline paranoia did become tiresome.

Part Two opens with a first person narration: Peilan speaks and finally we hear her side of the story, starting with her early life in a small village in China outside Fuzhou.

The protagonist is especially likeable and realistically portrayed — a true hero with a good heart beneath his rough and road - weary exterior; his narration is dead on, giving readers a true sense of the person the author is depicting.

From a craft standpoint alone, Lupton's use of second - person, present - tense narration intrigued me from the start.

In her first - person narration, the girl invites readers to «Look at me, follow me into the curl of a breeze,» and her entire body seems to become that curl, along with the wispy wings of the bluebirds who have answered her call.

Everything depends on your skills of narration, your emotional human type, your ability to attract the people with curious expressions, gestures, and words.

Writing a critical analysis paper, do not fail to mention the type of narration, it can be, for instance, from the 1st or the 3rd person singular and try to explain, why the author resolved to use exactly this type.

Apple's legendary «Big Brother» ad in 1984 helped to launch the whole personal computing revolution, and Steve Jobs himself helped write Apple's inspiring «Think Different» campaign (which showed footage of famous people as the narration explained that «they change things.

We learned about past American leaders as we produced the narration for a series of 12 biographical audio books, each showcasing a different person who played a very important role in history.

Along the way you will be provided with a comprehensive narration on the township, flora and fauna, and culture of the region, and will have the chance to meet some of the local Aboriginal people.