My Personal Reading Of Eveline from Dubliners by James Joyce

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My Personal Reading Of Evelinefrom Dubliners by
James Joyce

• Gabriele Rabino Classe 4A

Anno Scolastico 2009/10
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Titles Analysis

• EVELINE

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Denotation
Story Line
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Structure Analysis

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Introduction of the character from Evelines
point of view.
Matters explanation.
Shows the failure of Evelines escape.
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Narrative Technique

• Narrator
• Zero Focalization or Omniscient
• Inner Narrator
• External Narrator
• Styles
• Direct speech
• Indirect Speech
• Free Indirect Speech
• Free Direct Speech

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Kind of Narration
Telling
Showing
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Characterization
Main Character
Secondary Characters

• Eveline
• Frank

• Evelines Father
• Evelines Mother
• Harry

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Message
Gustave Doré - Andromeda
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The title is composed from only a word. It
gives one information about the text. It talks
about a girl who is called Eveline.
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A girl is sited in front a window. Her name is
Eveline. She is watching the people across the
street. In the same time she is thinking about
her life, her memories, her future. She is bored
about her routine and her drunk father. She wants
to escape with her boyfriend. Eveline is on the
pier with Frank. But something happens, or
exactly something doesnt happen.
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Omniscient narrator is everywhere in the story
and knows anything about characters histories,
thoughts, feelings, qualities and defects.
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Inner narrator adopts a characters point of view
or his point of view.
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External narrator is out of the story. He
observes the events and tells the actions and
dialogs between characters. He does not know
characters thought.
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Direct speech is a style that reports the
dialogue between one person, two persons or more
ones. We can recognise it by the punctuation
(inverted commas). ExampleMiss Hill, dont
you see these ladies are waiting?Look lively,
Miss Hill, please
Eveline from line 46 to 47
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Indirect speech is a style of third-person
narration. It reports the sentence of character
using the reporting verbs. ExampleHe said
she used to squander the money, that she had no
head, he wasnt going to give her
Eveline from line 64 to 69
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Free indirect speech is a style of third-person
narration which uses some of the characteristics
of third-person along with the essence of direct
speech. Example She had consented to go away,
to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to
weigh each side of the question.
Eveline from line 36 to 37.
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Free direct speech shows the shift of narration
to reporting without the inverted commas.It
represents the characters mental reactions to
what they see or experience.ExampleHome! She
looked round the room
Eveline from line 24
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Showing is the direct presentation of events and
conversation, the narrator seeming to disappear
(as in drama) and the reader being left to draw
his own conclusion from what he hears an
sees.
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Telling is a presentation mediated by the
narrator who, instead of directly and
dramatically exhibiting events and conversation,
talks about them, sums them up, etc.
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The omniscient narrator knows all about Evelines
mind. He characterizes the protagonist telling
her thought, feelings, emotion and memories. He
takes more attention on her memories to underline
her links with the past.
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The narrator describes Frank from Eveline point
of view. He appears as the perfect man. He is a
sailor. In there period sailors were thought to
be a bad husband, because they are always far
from home. This is confirmed from Evelines
father.
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