<span>The narrator gives information about the sequence of events that happened in the story. </span>
C. Is that the man you were telling me about the other day?
A monologue means that there is only one person who's doing the talking, while the remaining characters listen. So, in a dramatic monologue, the character addresses 'a silent auditor'.
"Angela's Ashes" is a controversial book and one that had an even more controversial repercussion helped him to shape people's intense reaction to this book.
This book recounts the memories of its author, McCourt, living in a backward region, with neglectful parents, precocious sexuality, hopelessness, death and poor quality of life. In addition, McCourt expresses depressing and derogatory thoughts within controversial memories and with a strong psychological content.
Because it is a book with strong and impactful themes, many people did not like the book because they believe that the author exaggerates and glamorizes the suffering and broken personal relationships. Other people, however, liked the book because it portrays a reality that many people go through and that the governments and people favored in society do not care.
Many events narrated in the book were denied by witnesses and people who lived with McCourt, which favored the negative reception that the book received. McCourt himself claims that he has modified some situations to make the narrative more fluid and engaging.
The book you are referring to is “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of fourteen children. He had six brothers and two sisters who survived into early adulthood. Stephen Crane’s father was a Methodist minister who was already over fifty when Crane was born. His mother was also a devout Methodist who wrote for Methodist journals and papers, often in support of the temperance movement (a movement that advocated a sober lifestyle and sought to ban the sale of alcohol.
He earned a reputation as a great American novelist, poet, and short-story writer; was a forerunner of literary movements that flourished long after his death; and became a respected war reporter.
His most widely read novel, The Red Badge of Courage, from the terrible conflict called the Civil War. Sometimes called the War Between the States, the Civil War was just that, Americans were divided into two groups roughly along geographic lines.
The text’s treatment of the idea that Henry “burned several times to enlist” suggest that the Civil War:
D. It was not unusual for young men of this time to willingly enlist to fight and perhaps die in a brutal war.
