Category Archives: Narrative

Ideas on narrative, narrators, and narration

On Voice: Three Ways

On Andrew Smith and Attacking the Avant-Garde

Ten: Quick Confusion

If I Stay: Emotionalism in Detail

Gone Girl: To Be YA or Not To Be YA

Half Bad: Engaging Expectation in YA Lit

We Were Liars: Compositionally Unstable

Cress: Word Choice in YA Lit

The Eye of Minds: Pragmatic Implausibility in YA Lit

On Humanity & Unreliable Narrators

Blood Red Road: Language as Character & Setting in YA Lit

On Grammatical Person & the Element of Surprise

Allegiant: Thought Acts in YA Lit

Ashes: Thought Acts in YA Lit

The Maze Runner: Creating Tension & Suspense in YA Lit

The Fifth Wave: Embodying Narrative in YA Lit

Ender’s Game: The Utterly Reliable Narrator in YA Lit

Uglies: The Shay Alternative in YA Lit