Learning from Life of Pi: The power of first-person narrators (video essay)
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Күн бұрынIn Life of Pi, Yann Martel searches for the “spark that brings to life a real story.” Life of Pi itself uses first-person storytelling to light that spark. Let’s see how Yann Martel uses the power of first person in the opening chapters to hook the reader, and why the novel starts before the first page.
TRANSCRIPT on Medium: bit.ly/LifeOfPiEssay
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What’s the best way to start a story? What makes readers, agents, and publishers take a chance on our book? What holds their attention? There’s plenty of advice out there on how to write a first chapter, but so much of it is generic. So I went looking for concrete examples in great books. On HOW THE NOVEL STARTS, I explore the opening chapters of popular novels, and figure out what writers can learn from them for their own work.
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SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTIONS
“Meekness” by Kai Engel
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“April” by Kai Engel
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“Parisian” by Kevin MacLeod
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“Haratanaya Sree” by Veena Kinhal
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“Oecumene Sleeps” by Kai Engel
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“Denouement” by Kai Engel
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“Quiet Raga” by Nimisha Shankar
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@adityasuhane8930 3 жыл бұрын
"Life of pi" has been my really favourite, especially the movie... It's so sad to lose such a great actor as Irfan Khan.
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
It's such a great book and movie! Also, what, Irrfan Khan died?! I haven't been following Bollywood lately but this is terrible news! He had such a lovely quality to his acting. :(
@adityasuhane8930 3 жыл бұрын
@@HowTheNovelStarts sad but true.... Last year we lost many great gems of gems of bollywood 😔
@epmcgill8301 3 жыл бұрын
Most definitely gave me new things to think about when approaching a novel.
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
I've learned a lot making these videos, and I'm glad to see they're helping others too :)
@Studyninja2024 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite videos on YT!
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you for the kind words! :D
@blaisedangeac3130 3 жыл бұрын
Great channel and also great choice of music for your videos, really amazing work! I'm looking forward to binging your catalogue :)
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome aboard!
@Asslover1234 3 жыл бұрын
This video showed me that I have a long journey to be a great author
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
We all do, but it's a learnable skill! Write, get feedback, learn, rewrite, write new stuff, learn more, etc.
@Asslover1234 3 жыл бұрын
@@HowTheNovelStarts That's really helpful think you for your time
@headedbeefer1511 3 жыл бұрын
I love this
@iamfranz13 3 жыл бұрын
love it!
@1995yuda 3 жыл бұрын
Sublime.
@Andre31688 3 жыл бұрын
What an unbelievable good video!
@HowTheNovelStarts 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :D
@TatianaBalashova 4 жыл бұрын
Haven't seen the movie, but heard controversial reviews about it. btw what is the movie with Meryl Streep footage? *** I liked how you mentioned: " it is almost the job of stories to ask questions. It is job of characters to explore things we as readers can't explore ourselves."
@HowTheNovelStarts 4 жыл бұрын
The film is called "Adaptation", came out quite a few years ago now. It was written by Charlie Kaufman, who is also a character in the film (playd by Nicolas Cage). As far as a movie, it's OK, but Charlie Kaufman has written some incredible scripts, so I'd actually recommend watching "Being John Malkovich" or "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." RE: controversy, if you're referring to Life of Pi, it's a great film. The only controversy I can think of was either the use of 3D in the film (shot at the height of the 3D craze around 2010), or maybe that Yann Martel's novel was partly inspired by another novel that he never formally attributed. Thanks for viewing and commenting, welcome to the channel :)
@TatianaBalashova 4 жыл бұрын
@@HowTheNovelStarts ok I see, thank you! Re Life of Pi - it seemd to be it is one of those movied which are good for watching on s big screen rather than ipad. Will keep it in mind
@MattAndImprov 3 жыл бұрын
Anybody else go and look up climatic vs climactic?
@nickollabossert153 3 жыл бұрын
Comment for the algorithm
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