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    Tristram Shandy is a novel that satirizes traditional narrative structures in novels. The narrative style jumps between the plot and digressions, and the plot does not progress linearly through time. The first person narrator, Tristram Shandy, uses the novel to express his opinions while narrating an inconsistent plot. This opposes the traditional linear narrative structure and serves as a contrast and satire. Tristram acknowledges the digressions are purposeful to portray what passes through a person's mind, proving the book satirizes traditional narratives.

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    Tristram Shandy is a novel that satirizes traditional narrative structures in novels. The narrative style jumps between the plot and digressions, and the plot does not progress linearly through time. The first person narrator, Tristram Shandy, uses the novel to express his opinions while narrating an inconsistent plot. This opposes the traditional linear narrative structure and serves as a contrast and satire. Tristram acknowledges the digressions are purposeful to portray what passes through a person's mind, proving the book satirizes traditional narratives.

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    Tristram Shandy is a novel that satirizes traditional narrative structures in novels. The narrative style jumps between the plot and digressions, and the plot does not progress linearly through time. The first person narrator, Tristram Shandy, uses the novel to express his opinions while narrating an inconsistent plot. This opposes the traditional linear narrative structure and serves as a contrast and satire. Tristram acknowledges the digressions are purposeful to portray what passes through a person's mind, proving the book satirizes traditional narratives.

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    Tristram Shandy

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    Christian Rudich
    Tristram Shandy is a novel that satirizes traditional narrative structures in novels. The narrative style jumps between the plot and digressions, and the plot does not progress linearly through time. The first person narrator, Tristram Shandy, uses the novel to express his opinions while narrating an inconsistent plot. This opposes the traditional linear narrative structure and serves as a contrast and satire. Tristram acknowledges the digressions are purposeful to portray what passes through a person's mind, proving the book satirizes traditional narratives.

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    Tristram Shandy, a satire to the traditional narrative structures in novels. Essay Outline. I. [Introduction] a.

    Brief introduction to the first chapter of the novel. b. [Thesis statement] Tristram Shandy is a novel that

    satirizes traditional narrative. c. Brief definition of narrative. II. [Development] a. The satire to narrative in the storys style. i. Analysis of the narrative style used in the novel. How the narrative jumps from the plot to some

    dissertations. ii. Analysis of the plot. How the plot does not work in a linear, temporal way; instead it jumps back and forth in time. iii. Analysis of the type of narrator in the novel. The narrator, Tristram Shandy, works as a first person omniscient narrator that uses the novel to portray his opinions while narrating a seemingly inconsistent plot. iv. This narrative opposes the traditional, linear

    narrative structure, and it serves as a

    contrast

    to it, making evident the mistakes of the former one, thus, being a satire to the traditional

    narrative

    b. Tristrams own opinions on the book. i. He says that the reader should not forget the

    meaning of the words opinion and life in order to interpret the book as a whole. ii. According to him the book should be read not in a straightforward read each of way, the instead, ideas the reader should by it

    portrayed

    individually, and analyzed individually. iii. He acknowledges that he makes several digressions in the course of his narration in order to set it forward iv. He explains the purpose of the book; he says that the book is a history book of what passes in a mans own mind. By doing this, he acknowledges that the structure of the book is a series of dissertations because he desires it to be so. This proves that the book works as a satire to the traditional narrative style. III. [Conclusion] Both the narrative style and the narration itself satirize the traditional way of writing, and they lead the reader to analyze the novels for their right value and to think about more than just the plot in a story.

    Christian M. Rudich de la Rosa

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