M7: Modes of nar­ra­ti­on

From third-per­son aut­ho­ri­al nar­ra­ti­on to stream of con­scious­ness, from ex­ter­nal fo­ca­liza­t­i­on to in­ter­nal fo­ca­liza­t­i­on. The fol­lo­wing sen­ten­ces all com­mu­ni­ca­te the same in­for­ma­ti­on, but they dif­fer si­gni­fi­cant­ly in the way this in­for­ma­ti­on is con­vey­ed.

1. On each line, write down the mode of nar­ra­ti­on the way it is done in a).

1. John Mil­ler had lived on the farm all his life. He was a de­scen­dant of Pu­ri­tan sett­lers who had ar­ri­ved in Cape Cod on the May­flower and who had es­ta­blis­hed them­sel­ves in Rhode Is­land. John was aware of his fa­mi­ly’s his­to­ry, yet it didn’t fill him with pride and he was al­to­ge­ther an un­hap­py man. He wan­ted to leave the farm and move to town. He ex­pec­ted life there to be much more ex­cit­ing.

   mode of nar­ra­ti­on:

   third-per­son aut­ho­ri­al nar­ra­ti­on, ex­ter­nal fo­ca­liza­t­i­on, no di­rect or in­di­rect speech or thought

2. John Mil­ler told his fri­ends that he wan­ted to leave the farm and move to town. Life there, he said with a thrill of an­ti­ci­pa­ti­on, would be much more ex­cit­ing.

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3. Maybe his fri­ends had al­ways known that he would some day get tired of life in the coun­try. But for him it wasn’t easy to ac­cept this. Yet he had to leave the farm and move to town. Life there – es­pe­cial­ly the bars, yeah, the bars - would de­fi­ni­te­ly be much more ex­cit­ing.

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4. He had to get away, there was no doubt about it. I have to leave soon, to­mor­row, today. Life there will be much more ex­cit­ing, so much more.

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5. He had to get away, had to leave. To town. Ex­cit­ing pla­ces, bars. The ani­mals, Brad, right. The so­o­ner the bet­ter. When ex­act­ly? To­mor­row? Next week?

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2. De­scri­be the ef­fect the dif­fe­rent modes have on the dis­tan­ce bet­ween John Mil­ler and the re­a­der.

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