Monday, April 18, 2016

Chapter 1/ pages 9 - 20 question 2: Gene is narrating his own story of what happened in high school...

Reading the story from the narrator’s perspective helps the reader to understand every emotion taking place in a scene. . Gene looking back on the story from when he was young and at the Devon School to now were he has “more money and success and “security”’(12), allows us to see how he has changed from the events in the book.  Seeing the story by looking back on the past shows us that Gene has come back to relive his memories of the school and becoming friends with Finny.  This memory must be important or change the narrator into the person he is now as an adult or the author of the book wouldn't have included it.  Allowing us to read the story from Gene's point of view doesn’t make the book completely reliable.  It means that we read the story frow was Gene remembers or wants to remember each situation.  There could be many details than Gene forgot or a small embarrasing moment that he wants to forget.  He is the character that we see most of, so he will be the character that we most identify with.  If he is withholding information or emotions, there would be no way for us to know.  
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  1. AnonymousApril 18, 2016 at 7:08 PM

    I agree with what Eve says. While reading this chapter I thought about how Phineas would've narrated the part when they were climbing the tree. Or any of the other boys that were with them. Although I don't agree with what Eve said at the beginning. I think having a narrators perspective helps the reader understand the emotion of the narrator not the whole scene. Maybe the narrator could give off the vibe of whats happening, but the reader wouldn't really know what everyone else's emotion is unless the perspective changed.

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  2. AnonymousApril 19, 2016 at 4:53 PM

    I agree with what Eve is saying about how the book being from the narrator's perspective helps the reader understand how the protagonist feels about what's happening. I think that it helps particularly to have the story be told in first-person because it helps the reader to understand the thoughts that are going to the main character's head. After Finny gets away with being able to wear a tie as a belt, Gene thinks, "I felt a sudden stab of disappointment. That was because I just wanted to see some more excitement; that must have been it" (Knowles 28). In this scene it is helpful and insightful to not only know what is happening, but Gene's justification of his disappointment when Finny gets away with yet another thing.

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