Friday, March 30, 2007
Instructions for Questions on Point of View
Please respond to two (2) of the following questions. You must answer at least one of the questions for “The Singing Silence.” Otherwise, choose a question that interests you! Most responses should need no more than 50 to 75 words or so. Be concise and make reference to the story by quotation when appropriate.
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The second part of the story is told in a different way. A first person narrates only the situation on the beach and some days of Vicente. The author chose this way because it is easier to make flexibility for the reader to think about the story without anybody’s opinion. We can see the hearts, minds, and thoughts of characters when the story is told by a third person narrator. “Never, he swore, had he known such freedom as at the bottom of the sea.”
The narrator tells the other parts of the story in a third person, but he tells it through Vicente. Here are the examples: “ he had been an ambitious boy,” and “ he must find to replace,” the amphora. The narrator uses a limited omniscient to speak and look deeper inside and outside Vicente. As a result, the narrator knows inside and outside Vicente than Vicente does; therefore, the narrator makes us understand what Vicente does, feels, and thinks. The narrator chooses this way to prolong the suspense and fill the story with valuable judgment.
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