A Story Analysis Guideline

What are the advantages of telling the story in a style that has potential narrators and a shift in focus from outside the narrative to inside the narrative?

Tell the audience that in order to understand the question you will explain it parts. “Before I can explain the advantages it has to the story we have to know what the question entails”

Factors affecting Potential Narrators

• One of the main factors is the matter of who is telling the story, and how. There are many perspectives from which a story can be told:

1) Is the narrator a character in the story or a voice outside the story?

2) Is the narrator is sympathetic, does the narrator agree supports or oppose a certain situation.

• Story must get told, there are many different ways of telling a story. Each variation may bring a different way in which readers understands the story.

• It often said that the narrator speaks for the author but we have to understand the narrator is not the author; the narrator is a device of the fiction.

Outside of the Narrative

• The outside narrator is not a character in the story; the outside narrator is in third person point of view and has an omniscient view point (all seeing).

• an outside narrator is aware that he or she is telling a story

• when, as the outside narrator tells the story, we seem to be present to the thoughts, experiences and feelings of a character in the story, ,

• the outside narrator may be more or less exaggerated

• A more exaggerated outside narrator is one whose own personality, opinions, etc, may begin to influence the reading of the story — we may be aware that the narrator likes a character more or that the outside narrator has a certain bone to pick. Such a bias may be unintentional, but it may also be part...

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...l can undergo different circumstances and the story can be told differently. If the story constantly shifts from outside to inside narrators we can also see variations of the same story being told as one. It can be an advantage because what one narrator may see as not so important can be the focal point of another narrators version. What an inside narrator knows can differ from what an outside and vice versa. In both situations it adds information so that we may comprehend the story better. With regards to the book we learn to trust Theo and he becomes a credible source due to his excellent memory. We realize how smart he is unwillingness to mislead with fake facts because he is an historian. We also knew he wasn’t suppressing any information due to the journal being private. The third person narration is presented without prejudice and is detached from the action