How Is The Story Told By Sigrid Undset

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1. Context of the Story
The answers to the following questions can help to establish the context of the story.
• Who wrote the fiction?
Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who got an award from the Nobel which is “Prize for Literature” in 1928 (Wikipedia). According to nobleprize.org, her father’s Family is came from Østerdalen and they were one of the first settler in Grytdalen in the Sollien valley of the river Atna. Undset’s father, Ingvald Martin Undset, got his doctorate in 1881 and married Charlotte Gyth of Kallundborg also in 1881. One year later Sigrid Undset was born and she was the eldest child of their family.
In 1893, Undset’s father died and after that she was transferred from a private school to
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• The first genre of this fiction is Historical Fiction. According to Sweetland (retrieved 2017), Historical fiction is type of story that based on a real life historical events and also set in proper historical time and place. Sweetland (retrieved 2017) also said that the character that become a main character in the story may have never existed in real life all along, but they may be included to give a better storyline for the fiction. A good historical fiction is a story that balances the authenticity of the real world events and the elements of fiction such as adding some minor events to give the story a little bit more spices.
• The second genre of this fiction is Family Saga. Family saga, according to Malatesta (2014) is a genre of book, fiction, or movie that revolves around the chronicle of a family, or a bunch of interconnected families, in a certain period of times. Malatesta (2014) also said that family saga is often used by many author to portray a historical events, the changes of social structure or hierarchy and the ebb and flow of circumstances from a multiple perspective. Family saga genre usually contains many elements from drama

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