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He doesn't miss a chance to elide the lights failing on a stricken U-boat into a flickering African generator over a chapter break.
Drawing comparisons to James Joyce's works, Self's roughly 400 pages of stream of consciousness contain multiple perspectives, inventive wordplay, unannounced time shifts, and paragraphs lasting 10 pages, all unrelieved by a chapter break.
Typically, there are no structural concessions to the reader; you won't find a chapter break from the first word to the last, 437 pages later, the author trusting us to ration our own sittings.
The entirety of Baldwin's written and on-camera oeuvre eventually mixes down to a roux, and while Peck uses the occasional chapter break, the effect is more of a Chris Marker-like cine-essay than typical Frontline-like reporter's documentary.
Now start with first chapter, Break up the chapter into co-headings.
In a novel-length work, a good time to switch perspective is at the start of a new chapter or at a chapter break.
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Clair said, which is "why there are chapter breaks".
"Her chapter breaks and starts were just amazing," he said.
Advancing without chapter breaks, the narrative bluntly positions us in the mind of a Chicano teenager.
Chapter breaks, conversely, appear to create a large gap between sentences that could have followed each other without a break.
Characters often explain things that would be entirely obvious to them, and chapter breaks are unnervingly sporadic.
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