narratological terms and gone girl (the book)

Order Description
4. For the trusting soul:
Gone Girl (both novel and script) and The Lifespan of a Fact (the essay itself) each present us with narrators who want us to trust them. Should we? Can we? Using two
narratological concepts we have discussed in relation to prose narrative analyze the reliability of the narrator in one of these texts.

Narratological Terms for this essay:
anachrony ( ellipsis ) intradiegesis, mimesis, pause. Please refer only to the uploaded documents for
definitions. Also, you do not have to define the terms in the essay.

Your essay must:
– Be written in the MLA style (double spaced, numbered pages, in-text citations, works cited)
– Have a thesis ( must use format that professor uses in uploaded text)
– Have support for that thesis with specific textual examples ( only from the book gone girl)

Broad Advice:
– Make sure you have finished the text(s) you will be using and make sure you understand the concepts/terms which will be central to your argument.
– Do not repeat evidence from texts used in lectures – find different quotations to support your idea
– Make sure that you are quoting from the whole text and not just one section
– If you are comparing two texts be careful to not write two separate essays. Instead, think through your argument using both texts throughout the essay.
– Quotations should only be used to support your claim. Avoid the impulse to allow a text to speak for you.
– Avoid contractions, abbreviations and informal language.
– You can use “I” but be careful that you maintain a critical and analytical tone.
– Paragraphs should be approx. 3/4 of a page in length – significantly shorter paragraphs indicate ideas which are not developed or connected to an argument’ longer
paragraphs indicate more than one idea or repetitive phrasing.