1. MY PERSONAL READING OF EVELINE
Giulia Corso
Classe IV A
Anno scolastico 2009/2010

2. TITLE MEANING
EVELINE

3. DENOTATIVE
ANALYSIS

4. STRUCTURE ANALYSIS The story is organized into 4 parts:
The function of the first part is to introduce the story and it introduces the main character: Eveline.
The function of the second part is to inform the reader about the death of Eveline's mother and how her life is changed after this event
The third part introduce the crucial events of the short story.
The last part informs the reader about the sad end of the short story.

5. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE Narrator Styles Omniscient narrator Inner narrator
Showing or Telling
Styles
Indirect speech
Free indirect speech
Direct speech
Free direct speech

6. CHARACTERIZATION Characters Secondary characters:
Eveline’s family.
Main characters: Eveline and Frank

7. MESSAGE

8. TITLE MEANING The title of the short story is a proper name:Eveline.
It is a female name and it refears to the main character, and when I reading the title I expected to read a story with a protagonist that is a young lady.
Eveline belongs to a collect of short stories, the name’s is Dubliners. It follows that Dublin becomes an extended metaphore, that is a symbol of pharalisis.
In Joice’s opinion, Dubliners are generally people unable to take decisions,to act, that only think and make resolutions but never act.
Eveline is the protagonist of the story and she represents a phase in life that coincides with adolecence.

9. DENOTATIVE ANALYSIS
The story starts with the description of  Evline's thoughts and behaviour. She sits looking out the window ,she is tired. Few people pass. She remembers the period when she played  in a field with her friends , her brother and sister and how her father hunt them from the field with a stick.. Everything are change, she can leave her home. Her father is agree towards her departure, but she isn't sure about this. She thinks in a far land she will be respected.She is afraid of her father.Another problem is her father  doesn't give her money because he thinks she speand money without thinking because she hasn't a mind. Subsequently  she meets Frank and  discovers a new life with him, she wants to go with him to Buenos Ayres where he has  home. There are two abstacle for her plain: her father , she remembers the moments with him when he isn't aggressive, He tells her a ghost story and he goes with her and her brothers and  sisters to make a pic nic.After that there are the most obstacle , her promise to her mother to stay with her family until this is possible. She decides to leave with Franch but she isn't not sure about her decision infact when they are at the station and  when is the moment to come up to the ship she clutch the iron in frezy , he rushes beyond the barrier and calls to her to follow. He is shouted at to go on but he still calls to her . she  sets her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal ans she doesn't leave with him.

10. Omniscient narrator:
He knows all of what characters feel and think.He tells in the third person, sometimes he adopts cahracters’ point of view.
Inner narrator:adopts a character’s point of view or his point of view.
Telling: Is a presentation mediated by the narrator the scene reported is filtered thought his eyes.
Showing: Is the direct presentation of events, the narrator reports the scene and the words said by the characters without saying his comment.

11. Indirect speech:is a style of third-person narration
Indirect speech:is a style of third-person narration. It reports the sentence of character using the reporting verbs.
Free indirect speech:resembles indirect speech in shifting tenses and other references, but there is generally no reporting clause and it retains some features of direct speech (such as direct questions and vocatives).
Direct speech: gives the exact words in the report, and in writing and print uses Quotation marks.
Free direct speech:lacks a reporting clause to show the shift from narration to reporting; it is often used in fiction to represent the mental reactions of characters to what they see or experience .
When he uses indirect speech he makes the reader feel not closer to the scene.
When he uses free indirect speech or thought the reader feels as if he were into the character’s mind.
When he uses direct speech and free direct speech the reader feels as if he were present in the scene.

12. Frank Eveline Eveline’s family
The narrator tells about Eveline’s feelings and thoghts. He tells also about her family,social status, her work, but he doesn’t describe her phisically, the reader knows only what she thinks and her memories.
Eveline
the characterization of frank is made up from Eveline’s thoughts and from the narrator. He tells about Frank personality, social status, work,abilities,drems,physical appearance.
Frank
Eveline’s family
It is made up from Eveline’s thoughts and memoirs and from the narrator.