ENGL219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Jane Smiley, Simile, Ernest Hemingway
23 Aug 2018
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Introducing boris: indirect presentation, direct definition, the burnout-looking out across the aisle, slouched and drumming his desk with his fingers. Describing boris: a funny, profane, street-smart kid who grew up in australia, russia and ukraine, and who will play artful dodger to theo"s oliver twist. The sly boris is a memorable creation, a testament to. Tartt"s ability to create people who have the sort of physicality and psychological depth that. Is theo likeable: theo, the narrator, is an admirably unlikeable character. He"s flawed, selfish and does very silly things. But tartt gives him a strong sense of decency underneath it all and surrounded him with some loveable characters (www. theguardian. com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/29/goldfinch-donna- tartt-not-th-booker-plot-coincidence: first-person narrator. A novelist"s style: a novelist"s style is his or her identity, his or her literary self. Like all identities, it is simultaneously developed and revealed conscious and unconscious the result of choice and the result of predisposition product of education and utterly idiosyncratic.
