The Immortal Analysis

When considering a story such as The Immortals, one must take into account not only the contents, characters and setting of the story, but the manner in which it is told, and the perspective by which it is narrated. All of these components are certainly full of importance, but all of them must be valued equally or the balance would tip and fall crashing down from the point all the best stories, like The Immortals, strive to reach. Unfortunately, there is a surprising amount of rather irritable debate, both current and historical, on whether it is best to narrate a story in first or third person point of view. As a rule however, each point of view tends to lend itself better to a certain type of tale over another. The story The Immortals for instance is told in first person narration. Were it told in any …show more content…
One might do this by taking note of the pronouns used, and by observing that the focus of the camera, so to speak, is from the main character’s own eyes. If one merely browses through the first few paragraphs, this will become readily evident with the main character’s use of ‘I’ and ‘my’, along with his continuing on to detail several personal experiences from his own point of view. For instance, take the sentence “I was born, or I appeared or materialized or beamed down…” (Amis 25). He directly references himself as the person to which to event happened, and tells the reader information only he could know. The reader is also exposed to his feeling of uncertainty, as he lists several possibilities that he believes might have occurred. The first person narration carries on through-out the entirety of the story all the way to the last line of “I…I am the Immortal”(Amis 33) and one is free to observe the main character’s thoughts and experiences at leisure as he drinks, fights and occasionally sleeps his way through his seemingly endless