Stream of Consciousness A narrative device used in literature "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind”; another phrase for it is “interior monologue”.

Tell-Tale Heart “TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story?”

Catcher in the Rye “All of a sudden –for no good reason, really, except that I was sort of in the mood for horsing around – I felt like jumping off the washbowl and getting old Stradlater in a half nelson. That’s a wrestling hold, in case you don’t know, where you get the other guy around the neck and chock him to death, if you feel like it.”

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close  If you were an English teacher, how many red pen marks would you make?  What does this tell us about our narrator (Oskar) and how his mind works? “The novel is told in a rather rambling stream of consciousness from the perspective of nine-year-old Oskar.”

CASE STUDY- DUE MONDAY Directions: Pretend you are a psychologist, and in complete sentences in your WNB, answer the follow questions about Oskar Schell based on what you have read in Chapters One and Three, as well as previous large-class discussions. Use page numbers when referencing partial or whole textual evidence. Also, use the example (on the right) as a model for your format. CASE STUDY NAME: OSKAR SCHELL GENDER: MALE AGE: 9  Background Information  Description of the Present Problem(s)  Diagnosis(/es)