Casablanca and Other Stories by Edgar Brau (attached)
The objective of your essay is to provide informed and educated answers, opinions, and observations on the following questions in regard to your essay.
Remember, this is a comparative essay so requires you to incorporate comparison and contrast between your chosen work (Casablanca) and the three primary texts we have read in this course (Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions, Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, & Marie NDiaye – Self-Portrait in Green).
* Please incorporate two quotes or make at least two references from any of the other three novels per section (narrator, narrative, context, and obviously comparison).
Questions;
Narrator: How would you describe the narrator(s) of the story, the chapter, the book? Who is the narrator, in detail? Who is telling the story? What is the narrator’s relationship to the story? What is the relationship between the narrator and the author? (Is there more than one narrator or is the narrator the same for all the stories or specific to each chapter?) How powerful is the narrator? (Is the narrator omniscient, know the same as the reader, know more, or know less than the reader as the story progresses?) What do you see as the role of narrator?
Narrative: What happens in the story? What is the relationship between the narrative and the author, the narrative and the narrator, and the narrator and the author? What is the role, nature, and importance of the frame story? How does the narrators relationship with the story differ from the reader’s relationship to story? How does the frame story function in the relationship between the narrator and the author?
Context: How does the story relate to the culture in which it was written and the life of the author? How does it relate to the language it was originally written in? How would you relate the story to your own culture? Could you write a similar piece with the same objective, in the same style?
Comparison: How are the narrators, stories, contexts, cultures, histories different from one book to another? How are they similar in these aspects? Could you interpose one narrator for another, one style of narration for another, one context for another?
A word about essays: an essay is different from a research paper. An essay expresses your researched and informed opinion on the subject from the material you are working with. You may reference other sources and opinions to support your own opinions and observations, but the essay is yours, your educated and informed thoughts, opinions, analyses, and observations. The questions of narrator, narrative, context, and comparison serve as guidelines to writing your story: you may focus on all of the questions or specific questions and aspects within the sections: as long as your essay demonstrates itself to be explored, researched, developed, and thoroughly thought out.
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