Friday, March 30, 2007

Question One for "The Singing Silence"

The story, “The Singing Silence,” while told by a first person narrator, is not told entirely in this way. What part of the story is told in a different way? Why did the author choose this way in your opinion?
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8 comments:

jie said...

The story, "The Singing Silence",is told by a first person narrator, but the part of Vicente's past life,he as a porter had broken the American's amphora and promised to devote the rest of his life to findind another amphora in the sea "to pay him back", is not immediately narrated by the narrator,who just learns this story of Vicent from other fishermen.Choosing this writing technique, the author wants to tell that the narrator is a generous man because he is not a Vicent's friend nor does know what Vicente borrows his boat for before he "offered to lend him the one[boat][the narrator]always rent in Formentera". The auther through the narrator's generosity as one of his three ways to show the men of noble virtue at Cala Pujol and farther reveal the theme of the story,the good and beauty of human nature.

April 3, 2007 at 12:12 AM
Phoebe said...

When the first person narrator “heard the story of Vicente” from those fishermen, the point of view seemed to change to a third person, the fishermen. Wuorio uses this way to interpret Vicente’s personality and thoughts. For example, when Vicente left Barcelona, “he knew that his years there had been a prison of his own making.” In this way, Wuorio reveals Vicente’s character to readers and awakens sympathy.

April 3, 2007 at 2:53 AM
Jenny said...

The story, “The Singing Sinlence,” while told by a first person narrator in the first part and the last part; however, the middle part of the story is told in a dramatic point of view. The author chose this method to more directly influece the readers to see and feel the beauty of the sea’s bottom, thus evoking the readers sympathy with the author.

April 3, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Kaisa said...

"The singing silence" starts out in first person narration. Half way through the author switches to change the tone of the story. By doing this she is able to add more details and go more in-depth with the character Vicente, by telling his life story. This adds substance to the story. It helps readers to be able to help view the characters in ways not capable by first person narration.

April 4, 2007 at 12:10 AM
tien said...

The part of the Vicente's past in "The Singing Silence" is told by a third-person narrator, who is an outside observer. The narrator chooses to reveal Vicente's fascinating past experience and personality by a storyteller who is not involved in the action in order to create a total effect. The reader therefore could find Vicente's risky past including the losing of an amphora more comprehensible, attractive, and touching.

April 4, 2007 at 1:51 AM
Young In said...

In the middle of this story, the author changes the point of view to third-person narrator. When the story is told by first person narrator, we can just know outside of Vincete, but
by changing to third person narrator, the readers have a chance to know more specific situation about Vincente. Readers can see and know his past life and look into inside of Vincente as they watch a movie, so readers has knowledge about his personality and past life. This knowledge makes the readers arouse compassion in his life at the end of story.

April 4, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Young In said...

In the middle of this story, the author changes the point of view to third-person narrator. When the story is told by first person narrator, we can just know outside of Vincete, but
by changing to third person narrator, the readers have a chance to know more specific situation about Vincente. Readers can see and know his past life and look into inside of Vincente as they watch a movie, so readers has knowledge about his personality and past life. This knowledge makes the readers arouse compassion in his life at the end of story.

April 4, 2007 at 10:23 AM
RyanK said...

While most of the story is told in first person, parts of the story that are about Viscente are told in third person because they either have to be told in third person or in second or first person from Viscente's perspective.
The third person from the narrator feels omniscient because he knows so much and can describe events and people in detail. I think this power of having so much knowledge means we can know a lot about Viscente without experiencing it from Viscente himself. Viscente is apart from us yet we understand his situation more than well enough.

June 20, 2007 at 12:50 AM

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