Archive: Story Experiences

Go Tell it on the Mountain
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Empathy Generator
"He lifted up his head, and she saw tears mingled with his sweat. "The Lord," he said, "He sees the heart--He sees the Heart."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
David Copperfield
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: Empathy Generator
"I could not be here once more, and so near Agnes, without the revival of those regrets with which I had so long been occupied"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
To Kill a Mockingbird
Experience: Double Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy in a Soliloquy
Scout Finch is torn between listening to her father's advice and ignoring Cecil's racist remarks or proving she isn't a coward by responding. Scout then observes other characters' soliloquies (and we identify with the characters Scout identifies with).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Castle of Otranto
Experience: Distress
Narrative Technology: Story within a Story
The novel begins with a preface written by the translator describing how he discovered the tale, didn't really believe it, but then came to see that it must be true. We are encouraged to "suspend our doubts and peer deeper into the story, seeking authentic truths hidden beneath the surface preposterous" (Fletcher 189).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Eminent Victorians
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"His fate was mingled with the frenzies of Empire and the doom of peoples. And it was not in peace and rest, but ruin and horror, that he reached his end."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Early Diary (1768-1778)
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"O my dear--such a charming day! And then last night--well, you shall have it all in order--as well as I can recollect"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Right Stuff
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die.
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
In Cold Blood
Experience: Curiosity
Narrative Technology: Suspense
"At the time not a soul in sleeping Halcomb heard them--four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy recreating them over and again--those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025