Through the character discourse and narrative discourse from A Day s Wait by Ernest Hemingway, we demonstrate and point out that contextual analysis helps improve reading comprehension in the real sense.

Different kinds of narrative discourses have been offered by the academia in terms of interpreting the historical transformation of Chinese politics in the last 30 years from 1978 to 2008.

The text is usually formed of narrative discourse.

In-depth outlining of the narrative mode of neo-realistic novels through analyses of the narrative person, point-of-view, focalization, and narrative discourse employed therein will facilitate understanding of the fundamental attributes of neo-realistic novels as well as their extensive popularit.

In this article, I will elaborate on the feminine narrative position, feminine growth narrative speech and appreciation style in the two novels, which embody the author s shifts of gender position in creation to feminine writing.

Through a comparison between Xiao Hong s The Biography of the Hulan River and Chi Zi-jian s Primeval Scenery, we can see such similarities of the two books as─the profound influence of the childhood experience and the choice of the angle of view of children, the experience contents and northeastern local feature,the freshness of the narrative speech and the atmosphere of sentimental nostalgia.