Ghostwritten Literary Elements

Ghostwritten Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction

Setting and Context

The story happens in East Asia and moves through Russia, Britain, the USA and Ireland. 20th century.

Narrator and Point of View

The novel has nine different narrators from nine different cities.

Tone and Mood

Pessimistic.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Quasar is the protagonist while we have Neal Brose and Margarita Latunsky with other characters as antagonists.

Major Conflict

We have two main conflicts in this novel, the conflict between police and terrorist attacks, the conflict between love and marriage life.

Climax

We have many climaxes here in this novel in different areas, first, the gas attack of the cult group in Tokyo while the police arrive to arrest them. Lawyer Neal Brose climbs up a mountain and dies. Grandma dies as she knows that her granddaughter had an affair with the lawyer. Margarita Latunsky is taken by the police

Foreshadowing

The lawyer's decision to end his relationship with his wife foreshadows his tragic end.

Understatement

Quasar's call to the boy understates big bad events will happen later.

Allusions

The allusion of the terrorist who represents evil in the novel.
The religious cult which reveals the troublesomeness of human beliefs.
Death which attracts the attention of people towards religion and divine.

Imagery

Terrorism and war which threaten the welfare of the world.
Spirituality as the author wants people to consider spiritual things more.
The strangeness of death and how it occurs in a sudden way.

Paradox

There are contradicted ideas as we have death and terrorism with love and affairs. The author uses such a paradox to show the evilness of human nature sometimes.

Parallelism

The lawyer's departing of his wife is parallel to his seeking of making an affair with the girl.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.” The weapon here refers to objections that men express to women.

Personification

"Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish" as if showers are human beings who can behave in a selfish way.

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