Narrative Ethics in Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.112How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Celeste Ng; Little Fires Everywhere; narrative ethics

Abstract

Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere tells a story about social problems such as class, race, privilege, and lifestyle and so on. This thesis analyzes the narrative ethics of the novel from the story level, discourse level and reading level. On the story level, the author expounds the conflicts between freedom and responsibility, motherhood and ambition, adolescence and adulthood, which explain the author's pluralistic and profound view of artistic creation. Secondly, the discourse level reveals the way in which the discourse is organized by the examples of the third person omniscient narration and intertextuality. Finally, the reading level examines people's free identity from the reader's point of view in the aspects of interpretative judgments and aesthetics, etc. The analysis of the narrative ethics in Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere tends to further dilate on the serious theme of tolerance and understanding among ethnic groups of different occupations and complexions.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuan Shen
AU  - Wenting Wang
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Narrative Ethics in Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 539
EP  - 544
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icassee-19.2019.112
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