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Analysis of how The ghost story Models the literary style of Exemplification
The story illustrates the idea of the existence of ghosts. The story was told using the narrative process, while incorporating examples of incidences that were related with a supernatural element. The story explores the incidences, leaving the audience to question their validity. The story however, with the provided examples that are supported through quotations, incorporated with the narrative answers the audience’s questioning even before the audience is aware that they are questioning. The examples provided build a cumulative exemplification, proving the point that there was a ghost in the house that was once lived in by the narrator’s family. The examples provided are both subjective and non-subjective. The incidences that are exemplified did not personally happen to the narrator, but were recounted to her. To the narrator the incidences are both personal and historical. The incidences occurred before her birth, and she was only ever told about them. The techniques provide a concrete argument because there is no real reason for a person to doubt what they are told as being a truth by their elders. The people who are the source for the narrator’s information are her mother and her older sister. To the narrator these are two very valid sources. To the audience however the sources are not as valid because they are personal sources. The audience then is faced with the perspective that this is a subjective exemplification of the existence of ghosts. To peers of the narrator, and family members the information is rather much non-subjective, and is concrete evidence because the quotations come from first hand witnesses.
The question of the existence of ghosts is hinted at by the “book ends” descriptions of the current house being lived in as “making strange noises” even through it is a new house and no one has ever lived there before. This information is compared to the “strangeness” of the old house. The audience is then engaged in the question subconsciously. The audience is given enough examples, and there fore evidence that in this one house of study that they can conclude that ghosts do indeed exist. Description is incorporated into this exemplification narrative to make it interesting to the audience to continue reading. Description however is not the focus in this paper.
The examples were ordered by importance, in the order that the narrator was presented the information. This builds interest. If the paper were to begin with the information that the previous tenant of the house had committed suicide and then the examples of how strangeness manifested itself afterward the interest to the audience would not have been so great. Holding back this information invites the reader to continue, an attempts to discover the root cause of all these strange happenings.
The story itself, with all its examples existed on their own until put together by the narrator in the hopes to explore the subject of the supernatural. The examples were shaped into something by being structured together by importance along with the question of the existence of the supernatural hanging over the paper.
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