To browse Academia. Darlene marched ahead of me into the effeciency unit that Jack and Emily had rented for the week. They'd come to this place called the Ocean Resort Motel. It was on the ocean all right, but it wasn't any resort. Darlene wasn't a big fan of Jack's.
Emily was at the kitchen table, looking down at the tomatoes she was preparing for the salad. It wasn't going so good. She pushed a butter knife across the tomato and barely left a dent. Pressing harder, she forced the knife through the tomato, squirting pulp and tomato guts over the white table-top. But Jack's got his rented tux and that's what's important. A tuxedo to wear at breakfast and on the beach and in bed.
Many contemporary novels subject their readers to a breathless sense that the events are hurtling past too quickly for real understanding. Scenes and focal figures change rapidly, and helpful transitions are missing. The resultant feeling of excessive rapidity is what I mean by narrative speed. Why has speed become a commonplace in fiction? What effects do authors seek by using it? How does such a frantic pace affect audiences and their attitudes towards the texts?
Quite differently, one assumes, since some readers glory in the effect while others fight it or dislike the discomfort it causes them. These questions confront readers of numerous recent novels, and they invite us to ask how one might best understand speed as a narrative technique. Narrative theory to date seems to offer relatively little insight into these problems. Critics have so far theorized pace fast or slow in just four basic fashions: 1 prose portrayal of physical speed; 2 narrative retardation; 3 the amount of story time covered per page; and 4 fictional reflections of cultural speed.
Murthy utilizes both first person and third person points of view, extending the overwhelming emotions of the characters onto readers with varying degrees, depending on which perspective is used, and proving them to be successful in both. One thing I really liked about Stories Varied was that the stories were incredibly diverse, taking readers back in time to a small rural village called Sauviragram or staying more modern day with a drink at Starbucks. In addition, Eleventh Hour is about a woman who has fallen for a man, only to discover that he has a wife she knew nothing about, and the chaos that follows, even some years down the road.
