This explanatory dissertation analyzes Annie Ernaux's narrative in The Event, showing how the narrator is presented as a fighter against societal norms and personal experiences.
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[...] Finally, we see that the narrator undergoes a change due to this abortion. Indeed, she has not always been a fighter, but it is because of this unwanted pregnancy that she becomes one. A change occurs: Thousands of girls climbed a staircase, knocked on a door behind which was a woman about whom they knew nothing, to whom they were going to abandon their sex and their belly.»(p.77) We see that she throws herself into the unknown thanks to her courage. [...]
[...] I saw a small swimmer hanging from my sex on the end of a reddish cord. [ . ]It's a scene without a name, life and death at the same time. » We can see very well in this passage a lexical field of war ('grenade', 'burst forth', 'reddish', 'death') that presents the narrator as a soldier on the front. The woman who is fighting shows determination, and the narrator shows this on page 27:But everyone had to think that, even if they were prevented from aborting, they would find a way. » She surpasses herself for herself and shows determination to defend her desire not to keep this child. [...]
[...] A fighter shows courage, strength, faces a conflict, a confrontation, a battle, and the term refers us to war. Thus, we will see to what extent the narrator in The Event The Event is presented as a fighter who faces a double conflict: a conflict with the society of the 60s that condemns abortion and a conflict that the narrator has with herself, which will allow us to see how the narrator goes from being a carefree girl to a fighter. Firstly, it's on the legal side that the narrator is facing a fight. [...]
[...] The Event - Annie Ernaux (2000) - How to show that the narrator is presented as a fighter? Assignment 3B This assignment involves producing an explanatory essay that explains the vision of the postmodern world contained in the contemporary literary work The Event1 by Annie Ernaux. Instructions Your task is as follows. 1. First, familiarize yourself with the dissertation topic. 2. Analyze the work under study, then develop a dissertation plan containing two or three main ideas supported by a total of six secondary ideas. [...]
[...] I saw a small bather hanging from my sex at the end of a reddish cord. It's a scene without a name, life and death at the same time. A scene of sacrifice. The character of battle and the horror that goes with it is represented by the words used by the narrator. « It burst out like a grenade « Rougeatre blood A scene of sacrifice: testifies to the horror experienced by the narrator Life and death at the same time - like in war Secondary Idea 2 The determination that allows her to live this fight « But everyone had to think that, even if they were prevented from aborting, they would find a way. [...]
