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For various reasons, of both taste and technique, I decided to close the narrative in the late summer of 1983; but any reader in the late 80s and onwards would see that the young narrator's heedless present day had become historical in ways that he, and I, could never have predicted.
In a way, the book's final scene, in which Moby drives around his hometown of Darien, Connecticut, listening to a pre-release tape of Play and filling in childhood memories to close the narrative's circle, is a cheat.
The atmosphere of feverish conspiracy and the dread of exposure that are central to the dystopian genre depend, in large part, on how close the narrative takes us to the rebel protagonist.
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The closer the narrative gets to our own time the tighter we feel Lovell's voice becoming, as if she were anxious not to hurt any of her informants who are still living, such as Mary Soames, Winston's youngest child.
And he veers so close to the narrative of "Washington, D.C". that both books even conclude with the same valedictory passage, one that equates the fall of a republic or the rise of an empire with the activities of bacteria on a microscope's slide.
Only at the close does the narrative of "Wicker Park" diverge from that of "L'Appartement".
This account is mighty close to the narrative portrayed in the film.
In the book, he illustrates the point by keeping Billey, an enslaved man about seven years younger than Madison, close to the narrative.
Ours")., so it's disappointing suddenly to lose that connection — to find, at the close, that the narrative "we" has shifted to the Americans, who remark on the wartime "disappearance" of Japanese neighbors and employees.
In recent exhibitions, current displays and a high-tech introductory film being shown in the new state-of-the-art auditorium, slavery has been placed close to the narrative center of American history.
"And it's a filmmaker's job to come up with sex scenes that are even more close to the narrative and the characters.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com