Section B: Writing an Introduction

1. Write about the ways writers use voice to create meaning in three of the texts you have studied.

2. Many narratives have settings which are significant. Write about the ways settings are given significance in three of the texts you have studied. 

An successful introduction should...

1. State which three texts will be discussed/analysed.

2. Show understanding of the narrative terminology.

VOICE:

A writer’s use of voice can be presented in a versatile way to create meaning in narrative. Both Keats, Fitzgerald and Hosseini capitalise on the potential wielded by narrative voice by presenting the reader with striking examples of audible ‘voices’ of characters who get to speak in the narrative and frequently combine this with the interior thoughts of both characters and narrator. Without doubt, the idea of voice is closely linked to aspects of characterisation and thus voice is used to create often fluctuating impressions of characters for the reader. 

SETTINGS:

Fictional stories, whether in prose or poetry attempt in some way to represent the world, either the real or the imaginary world. Therefore, writers often give their settings significance in narratives to provide the reader with opportunities to read beyond the literal. Ultimately writers can create layers of meaning through settings which are more than places where things simply ‘happen.’ This is especially true of the settings depicted in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, as well as in the narrative poetry of John Keats.