The two narrator approach in Code Name Verity made the novel very difficult for me to read. I felt myself getting distracted from the novel's content due to the complicated method of storytelling. Frequently, I had to stop and reread sections of the novel to see if I had missed a detail concerning the current narrator. Eventually, I caught on and assumed it was really Verity narrating everything. Also, when it was Maddie's turn to tell the story, I had difficulties understanding if "Verity" (Part One of the novel) and "Kittyhawk" (Part Two) had parallel timelines, or if "Kittyhawk" started after "Verity" was finished. Part Two's opening seems like it would take place right after the crash, though during her accident notes she writes about the
Missy decided to make a hoax that her cousin was actually her twin and when people saw them everyone believed it. For the hoax, she went on the schools news, which is a video that got released to the public and YouTube and the whole public saw it and believed it. At this time Missy and Claire were getting suspicious about if they adopted and had the pressure of their friends telling them they looked exactly same, then until the middle of the book when Genevieve comes into play. When Genevieve was in school one day her friend showed her the video she was in shock. How could they look just like me? Was I adopted? Whats going on? Genevieve was asking herself these questions for a week, then she decided to contact them. Genevieve called the school they told her that it was all a hoax that Claire and Missy were just cousins, but, she knew that could not have been true because she looked just like them as well. Genevieve then sent them a friend request on Facebook, Clarie did not want to change so she did not accept it and Missy thought it would be cool to meet her so Missy got in contact. Which leads to the end at the end Missy and Claire try to meet Genevieve but her parents see the video and won't let her leave instead tell her a secret that they have been keeping from her. Genevieve’s parents told her that she was not adopted, but they had triplets and gave
Tessa did not think that she would ever go back to Pennsylvania because her mom and sister abandon her and her dad went to prison when she was three. Until she finds out that her dad is dying so she has to fly back to Pennsylvania to see her dad in the prison. When Tessa gets in town she has to go to the Greenwoods house to stay because they are like family. Maggie gets Tessa up the next morning to go see her dad, When they get there the girl at the front desk said he passed away last night. The next plot element is when Tessa hears from Maggie that four girls got kidnapped, then killed, and dumped on the road I-70 by the Ohio river, that made Tessa think about the night in the greenwoods old home.
They each tell their side of the story, letting the reader into their thoughts. These multiple narrators contribute to help the reader understand each main character from different perspectives and show how and why things happened the way they did. Bailey also uses both a prologue and an epilogue to contribute to the richness of the story, which is a style quite common in the ancient Greek plays. In the prologue, Susan Hazen, Kevin’s mother, tells the reader in retrospect about the morning of the hunt and forewarns the reader of the tragedy that is to come (7). After reading the prologue we know that something horrible will happen, but Bailey leaves us wondering what the tragedy will be. Bailey also incorporates an Epilogue to bring closure to one of the characters.
This story was written in the first person, and they give that to us right as the book starts. “ My full name is Cadence Sinclair Eastman. I live in
“They were in a small, square room from which radiated a dull, sulphurous light.”(pg 69) though it is an movie and you can't really deeply describe setting or characters but they could have at least either put in narrator or shown these things in an way that they could stand out. The movie seemed so long since how the characters interacted with each other whereas the book seemed like they each other well in some way and didn't seem so rigid when they talked. The book had really set the event if it was contented such as at the end they cheer together after the father is back or when Charles Wallace had been taken over by It. Finally, the movie seemed stale when certain parts such as Calvin O’ Keefe falling off one of Mrs.Which forms seemed like an cliche and was an complete waste of time and stalled the movie where as the book kept flowing with no
It could be difficult to follow for some in the beginning if you didn’t know that there was two narrators. After figuring that information out it made reading the text much easier for people. In a way it may have helped readers if they decided to reread the story and see if there were any details that they missed the first time. Especially because there is so much going on and this book is so fast paced, it was sometimes hard to keep up with what was going on. Trying to figure out Nanapushe’s point of view and what he was trying to say and how he was trying to save his land. As soon as readers figured out that he was speaking to Lulu it made it easier to follow. Then going to Pauline who didn’t really have a specific audience. Pauline didn’t want anything to do with her culture. A jealous women of a girl named Fleur Pillager. She was very deceitful and a liar, which made what she had to say very hard to believe. Also as readers we found out the importance of symbolism in this story. How important the bear was in the story and what it represented. Finally how important survival was to these people. Literally survival was everything, going through all the tough challenges they did. Survival was the only thing those people could do. Louise Ederich delivered us readers a great
One of my all time favorite books is If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Until recently, I was unaware that there was a second book, Where She Went. I began reading it after I picked it up in the library. To me, it was confusing in the beginning, because the first book was written from the point of view of the character Mia Hall. Where She Went is also written in first person, but from Adam Wilde’s point of view. Adam was Mia’s boyfriend in the first book, who was actually the reason she decided to stay alive after a car crash that took the lives of her parents and brother. Adam convinced Mia to stay alive by saying that he would take her to New York, break up, whatever she wanted if she fought for her life. They ended up breaking up, but Mia moved
Mia is mainly concerned with Adam and she changed through the book and she shows through flashbacks throughout the book that show how her and Adam grew so
The narrator plays a key role in the development of the plot and meaning of a story. A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, tells the story of Miss Emily Grierson and her mysterious, isolated life. The narrator of the story, who never reveals their identity, presents the story in a unique way; using a slight combination of first and third person points of view. Although hard to identify, the narrator at some points does and does not include themselves in the information they are sharing with the readers. To start, the author narrates using this style to keep the readers wondering and interested. In addition, Faulkner wishes to portray Emily as a sympathetic character. Also, the narrator communicates the story in a manner similar to the way
Before the novel began their was a car crash that was mentioned all throughout the novel we as the reader never actually learned what happened until end. Kaeleigh’s sister Raeanne had been killed in a car crash that the whole family was in. This car crash was the bases of the story and caused everything else that happened to come from that one point. Because of this car crash Kaeleigh developed dissociative identity disorder or split personality disorder. Kaeleigh and Raeanne acted like two completely different characters and they believed that they were two different people. Kaeleigh honestly believed that Raeanne was a different person and was alive all through the story so when Raeanne did something she didn’t think it affected her. When
The narrator serves a variety of purpose in “A Rose for Emily”. As previously stated, the narrator forces the reader down the alternate route and, by disrupting the timeline, creates
There are five narrators in this book who carries on the story telling. Those five narrators are four girls each named Ruth May, Adah, Leah, Rachel, and their mother Orleanna. Orleanna is always the opening narrator in each of the books besides the last two which are Song of the Three and The Eyes in the Trees. I found it very interesting to have Orleanna as the opening speaker because she is narrating the story from a later time comparing to her four daughters. Orleanna narrates the story as she is talking about history while her daughters narrate the stories as they are experiencing it at the moment. Basically in the opening act Orleanna hints ominously to the reader at the events that’s going to happen. In the opening act Orleanna said “There’s
A narrator is an important part of every story. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the entire novel is narrated by a young girl in the book named Scout. However, sometimes having only Scout as a narrator can make the tale difficult to read.
Neither narrative stays complete on its own. The double narration
Each of the narrators have their own individual purpose in the story. When the novel begins, Tabitha Bramble’s letter