Friday, February 19, 2016
Samantha Shipley
How does the perspective of the narrator change the story? What do you think the author is trying to convey with this?
I had answered this prompt last week, but I believed my perspective has changed as I have read further into the story. I had previously said that be reading the authors account of the story would allow us to become biased toward other characters, but I'm not entirely set on that fact. It seems in this novel, the narrator (Celie) tells the story as it is. She doesn't make herself sound perfect nor does she for any of the characters. I believe the author is still trying to convey a deeper connection between the reader and the narrator, but it I also our job to pick up details that the narrator has left out. Maybe that is the authors intention? To force us as readers to because more engaged in the novel. Or maybe it is their intention to let us fill in those details from our imagination, so we can feel as if we are part of the story too.
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I completely agree with the statement that Celie tells it like it is. She is biased, but the way she describes everyone else, it seem that those people are in fact the way she is describing them. The connection does grow deeper because we get attached to who the characters are, it forms a very deep connection. We also do assume some of the things in the book, but I believe that's what Walker wants us to do. She wants us deeply engaged in the book, which I believe we have become.
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