First-person narrative

But he knew what it was, the army here, the army there, whispering to itself in the dark.” (Drummer Boy line 24) The mood of the story is having courage and never giving up. The points of view and the mood work together to make up the story. In the first part of the story the reader connects to Joby feeling sorry and bad for him. They feel bad for him because they can tell he's scared of the war and he has “... only a drum, two sticks to beat it, and no shield.” (Drummer Boy line 40) Later in…

I am really enjoying this novel so far. In the first paragraph of the novel the author uses a first person point of view to disclose that the protagonist, August Pullman, has some sort of facial deformity as he wishes that “I had a normal face that no one ever notices at all” (3). I immediately knew that I would be taking a journey with this character through his eyes to see how he navigates through the outside world’s reactions and judgements of his differences. Fortunately, August has a…

Through Verity’s flashbacks she tells the story of how she and Maddie never gave up even when things got to a point of never coming back. The book is in two parts and it switches between Verity’s point of view and what she remembers to what Maddie first person point of view and how she remembers things. Verity talks mainly of…

And what is one to do?” (Gilman 473). These two back to back statements made during the same time frame give the reader a glimpse into the narrator’s mind and the conflicting opinion she has within herself. By switching the point of view to third person and back the narrator is exhibiting that she is beginning to dissociate within her mind the conflicting views of how things are and the way she wants them to be. The narrator is oppressed, virtually a prisoner in her own life, she wants freedom.…

The relationship between human beings and animals is always a complex one. In the poems “Travelling through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, the two writers establish scenes in which the speakers face the death of animals but capture their speakers’ opinions on animal lives from different perspectives. While the gloomy and serious tone in Stafford’s work stands a stark contrast with the light-hearted one in the “Woodchucks” as the speakers’ inner feelings differ,…

that he could earn money to enable and persuade his family to emigrate to America. Downes uses first person to express his tone of the letter. He uses rhetorical devices, pathos, and conversational diction in relation to his family matters and American experience. Downe’s American experience sets an example for his immigration from England to America. Downe’s use of speaking in first person signifies him by his acknowledgement to life in America. As an immigrant he applies his life…

Pearsall, Shelly. (2006). All of the above. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company. Four inner city students are going through the journey of building the world’s largest tetrahedron. The engaging and suspenseful story intertwines personal stories of the teachers, students, and the community. This book, which is inspired by actual events, is filled with unexpected humor and distressing characters. All of the Above makes math alive, while at the same time teaches friendship and diversity in…

When I think about the first person I had a genuine crush on, and that feeling I remember, I immediately think of this one person in particular and when we started talking. I don’t remember the day exactly but I do remember I was in middle school, and that it was the end of 7th grade going into 8th, and the most embarrassing part was that it was on an app, you know, one of those apps where you could meet anyone, anywhere around the world, from the comfort of your phone. Honestly I laugh about it…

change the male face of the workplace and misogynistic ideals. Skilled pioneering women spread their thoughts like wildfire through literature and drama mediums. For example, in Professions for Women, Virginia Woolf uses characterization of the first-person narrator to illuminate the theme of women pushing social boundaries to achieve freedom, through the expert use of structure and style. Woolf intentionally alluded to the characterization of the narrator by the structure of the essay. The…

The opening line of the narrative, “In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now,” is at once declarative and humble. The sentence begins as if to prepare the reader for some great truth. The truth could have been something simple and personal, as in, “In the time…