Need help with finding a book, please (1 Viewer)

[pakigal]

Hey guys,

Does anybody know a book where the narration(first person etc.) has been effective in highlighting the characterisation. Like where maybe first person is used to create empathy or a character has no dialogue to how he doesn't have a say. I really need something and I'm having trouble finding anything...

Also, I need a text which has a circular structure, the ending links to the beginning. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tulipa]

Great Gatsby for the first one. We see the book through Nick Carraway's eyes but it's all about Jay and Daisy. We get their characters from his narration.

For the second one, something where the prologue gives away the ending... You know like you find out someone's dead in the beginning and then the rest of the book builds up to that moment. I can't quite think of a title at the moment.

 

[pakigal]

Like Lovely bones?

 

[Tulipa]

Like Lovely bones?

I wouldn't say so. More that the rest of the book is set previous to the prologue.

I'm not sure the Lovely Bones is a "circular" novel.

 

[Azamakumar]

Also, I need a text which has a circular structure, the ending links to the beginning. Any suggestions?

Cloudstreet for one, but it is on the HSC prescribed text list, so you're out of luck if it's for school.

 

[STEIN]

Memento perhaps

 

[yosemite sam]

harry potter.

 

[m0ofin]

The Hours by Michael Cunningham perhaps? I haven't seen the novel but the film returns to the beginning.

 

[Kwayera]

An Imaginary Life, David Malouf.


..so I like an English text, so sue me

 

[withoutaface]

Goodfellas and The Number 23 come to mind.

 

[*Buttercup*]

I wouldn't say so. More that the rest of the book is set previous to the prologue.

How bout Jodi Picoult's "Perfect Match"?

 

[Tulipa]

How bout Jodi Picoult's "Perfect Match"?

Don't know, don't care.

The woman writes McFiction, if this is for an assignment don't use her.