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Extended Composition
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Macbeth
Comparative Study
Literary Genre
Theme
Cultural Context
The Road
The story takes the form of a journey and so is told in a mostly linear pattern. However, there are some flashbacks.
Encourages us to focus on the story as it happens through linear method.
Flashbacks show us that the characters have suffered in the past as well as in the present - empathy
Perspective of boy and perspective of man.
Children of Men
Linear
Takes the form of a journey with a beginning point and an end point, story unfolds along the way.
Perspective of Theo and perspective of Kee as they both embark on this journey
Never Let Me Go
Told in retrospect
Within this, the story is mostly linear, however the use of stream of consciousness causes the story line to move around a little.
Stream of consciousness causes us to think of Kathy H as a human character