1. ENGL 103, Spring 2011, Never Let Me Go INTRODUCTION: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Literary Dystopias + 5 Terms for Reading Narrative Fiction: A “How To” Guide

2. Part One Literary Dystopias

3. Illustration: Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia. Utopia, Thomas More (1516) Greek terms for ou-topos [no place] and eu-topos [good place]

4. Dystopia Greek terms for “bad-” and “place” or “landscape”

5. Brave New World, published 1932

6. Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1949

7. The Handmaid’s Tale, published 1985

8. Scene from The Matrix (Dir. A. and L. Wachowski, 1999)

9. Questions

10. Part Two 5 Terms for Reading Narrative Fiction: A “How to Guide”

11. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. 5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author

12. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. 5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator

13. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. 5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character

14. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. 5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character • Narratee

15. Chatman, S. Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1993. 90-7. Print. 5 TERMS FOR READING NARRATIVE FICTION • Author • Narrator • Character • Narratee • Reader

16. • Author:

17. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative

18. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator:

19. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator)

20. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character:

21. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought

22. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought • Narratee:

23. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world

24. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world • Reader:

25. • Author: always outside of the story world; writer of the narrative • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Character: an agent that advances the plot through action, dialogue, or thought • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world • Reader: always outside of the story world; receives the narrative

26. • Narrator: conveys or tells the story; sometimes from inside the story world (internal narrator), sometimes outside of the story world (external narrator) • Narratee: the recipient of the narrative, the “listener”; usually inside of the story world

27. READING Narrator and Narratee