o establish a certain style for artistic purposes. It gives the author a sort of "artistic reputation" describing the way s/he writes. Example: In Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger forms a specific writing styles that have since not been match. Salinger gets inside the mind on Holden Caufield, writing some sentences that are short and to the point-basically simple writing and including swear words in his sentences, not accepted by the authors of the time. However, with distinct and universal themes, and remarkable descriptions, Catcher in the Rye has proved to be one of the best books for adolescents of all times. Salinger established a poetic license by bending the rules of literature to his advantage and forcing the reader to remember (or compare) their adolescence while looking at Holden. 19) Point of View is the prospective from which a book was written. It gives a literary work a direction and shows the reader what she can expect as the work progresses. Example: In Willa Cather's My Antonia, the main narrator, Jim Burden, arrived in Nebraska as a child and found the new landscape and its people different from those in his native Virginia. Since Jim's marriage is falling apart and he doesn't like his life, his view of his childhood is a romantic one. 20) The protagonist is the "good guy" in a literary work-who is in a constant struggle with the antagonist. The protagonist gives a work a course-s/he is the main character whose path the reader follows throughout a literary work. Example: In Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is the protagonist, an honest sailor, who is unjustly thrown into prison by spiteful enemies on his wedding day. He later gets out of prison and gets revenge on the antagonists-the enemies who threw him into prison. 21) Setting describes the Time and Place in which a literary work is said to have taken place in. It provides a backbone for the events which occur in the novel. Example: Night b...
