Task: In a form of your choice, explain how the point of view of the book you have read has influenced your reading of the book's storyline, other characters or themes.
Suggested responses:
Option 1: write an analytical response in which you answer the question with essay-style paragraphs. This response should be 500-800 words long.
Narration by definition means how an author chooses to convey essential information to readers in their work. Authors get to play in how they tell their story, because of this their actions have a clear effect on the readers view of the story. This effect is clear to see in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s eternal classic The Great Gatsby, where Nick Carraway tells the entire story from his perspective as a first- person, …show more content…
By doing so Fitzgerald achieves this effect that the readers experience the same unknowing of other character’s thoughts and get pushed cleanly through the plot. Nick is nether more than another plain character in this unfolding tragedy, where readers never get to enter other characters minds, because of this other characters thoughts and opinions are completely in the dark to the reader. Readers are simply left to use their imaginations to what the other characters are thinking. A good example for this is when Gatsby announces: “ Im going to make a big request of you today, so i thought you ought to know something about me. I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me. You'll hear about it this Afternoon”. (Page 67). This forms a prime example of when Fitzgerald’s choice gives the story depth, suspense and gives the readers another reason to keep the pages turning. Nick’s character in a whole, of no judgement, makes the readers form opinions for
Suggested responses:
Option 1: write an analytical response in which you answer the question with essay-style paragraphs. This response should be 500-800 words long.
Narration by definition means how an author chooses to convey essential information to readers in their work. Authors get to play in how they tell their story, because of this their actions have a clear effect on the readers view of the story. This effect is clear to see in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s eternal classic The Great Gatsby, where Nick Carraway tells the entire story from his perspective as a first- person, …show more content…
By doing so Fitzgerald achieves this effect that the readers experience the same unknowing of other character’s thoughts and get pushed cleanly through the plot. Nick is nether more than another plain character in this unfolding tragedy, where readers never get to enter other characters minds, because of this other characters thoughts and opinions are completely in the dark to the reader. Readers are simply left to use their imaginations to what the other characters are thinking. A good example for this is when Gatsby announces: “ Im going to make a big request of you today, so i thought you ought to know something about me. I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me. You'll hear about it this Afternoon”. (Page 67). This forms a prime example of when Fitzgerald’s choice gives the story depth, suspense and gives the readers another reason to keep the pages turning. Nick’s character in a whole, of no judgement, makes the readers form opinions for