Most authors try to avoid them, but if you have to have one, they're to provide backstory - something that happened before the story started, but that the reader needs to know in order to appreciate the story.
Yes, the author of "The Thief Lord," Cornelia Funke, uses flashbacks to provide background information about the characters and their past experiences. These flashbacks help to deepen the readers' understanding of the characters and their motivations throughout the story.
In "She Stoops to Conquer," the author uses flashbacks to provide background information on characters, explain past events that influence the present story, and add depth to the plot. These flashbacks help the audience to better understand the characters' motivations and actions.
The author of Holes, Louis Sachar, uses flashbacks to provide background information on the characters, reveal past events that are relevant to the present storyline, and build suspense by gradually revealing pieces of the past. This technique helps to create a more well-rounded and engaging narrative for the reader.
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Gino Carlotti has written: 'Flashbacks' -- subject(s): Biography, Italian Americans
The duration of Flashbacks of a Fool is 1.9 hours.
The writer uses the literary technique of "flashbacks" to reveal events that happened earlier in the story in "The Odyssey." Flashbacks are narrative devices that allow the author to interrupt the chronological flow of the story and provide background information or context for the reader.
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Flashbacks of a Fool was created on 2008-04-13.
Flashbacks - The Fuzztones album - was created in 1996.
As originally published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' did not incorporate the use of flashbacks in its extensive, and quite creative, narrative. Flashbacks were utilized in a modern movie-version of the story, however, and they have been seen as effective by some reviewers.
Almost all drugs can cause flashbacks depending on the tolerance of the user, but Lysergic Acid (LSD) is the most commonly known flashback induced drug, some flashbacks occurring up to 3 years after the last dosage, but continued use prior to that period would be needed to induce such a flashback. The occasional use is unlikely to cause a further 'trip' later in life.