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Who's telling the story, anyways?

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WHO'S TELLING THE STORY, ANYWAY?

BY TYLER BAVERY, 3 HOUR

THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS

BY CHARLES W. CHESNUTT

Who's telling the story, anyways

  • There isn't an actual character that is narrating the book.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

  • Rena left the room to carry out her hospitable commission. Page 25
  • Tryon found the office without difficulty. Page 104

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  • The narrator is more of an outside observer in the book

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

  • He would have given his life for Rena. Page 188
  • Rena saw Plato untying the pony as the lady climbed into the phaeton. Page 243

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  • The view that the narrator has in the story is third person

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

  • Even a dumb brute can be won by kindness. Page 177
  • He took down a volume bound in legal calf and glanced through it. Page 171

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  • Throughout the book, the narrator changes thoughts

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

  • Rena did not know
  • Tryon took the wreath and bowed his thanks.

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  • The narrator uses third person pronouns
  • She, He, They, Him, Her ext.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

  • This was her first direct order for the specific garment. Page 59
  • She was never sick in her life. Page 89

SENTENCE EXAMPLE P.77

  • He looked up amiably from the book before him and read trouble in her face.

OPION

  • I think that the narrator made the book harder to understand
  • Changes characters
  • Didn't feel that I could relate to the story

SENTENCE EXAMPLE p.125

  • "Now's de time, boy, fer you ter be lookin' roun' fer some nice gal er yo' own color

CITING

  • On page 97 the narrator was sharing Warwick's thoughts.
  • The on page 98, the narrator switches to Tryon's thoughts.

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  • The narrator also has an omniscients view.
  • The narrator knows what everyone is thinking but it still is in third person

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Chesnutt, Charles W. "The House behind the Cedars." Athens: University of Georgia, 2000. Print.