Part one of term paper
Heinrich Böll uses his novel, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, to attack modern journalistic ethics as well as the values of contemporary Germany. The structure of this novel is important to conveying his message. He uses a police report format, differences in chapter lengths, narrator or author intervention, a subtitle, and the extensiv ...

Part two of term paper
... and he also talks of the ‘conduction’ of the information coming from these different sources. There are different types of sources. There are major and minor sources, subterranean streams, and sources “that can never come together”. The major sources are the police transcripts, Blorna (attorney) and Hach (public prosecutor). The minor sources are Katharina’s brother, Else Woltersheim, etc. The subterranean streams are the ‘leaks’ from the offices ...