ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Narration, Ernest Hemingway
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Narrator: the being/voice that tells the story; a character the author develops. 1st person: this kind of narrator tells his own story. 2nd person: this kind of narrator tells the narratee"s story. 3rd person: this kind of narrator tells a character"s story. The narratee is not the same as the reader. The narratee is a person/people the author imagines is talking to. When we read a story, the story tells us to imagine ourselves in that setting. The author is targeting a specific audience, whoever they might be, but is also informing the rest of the readers to try and step into the shoes of whoever he is addressing. The narrator, narratee and characters are all entities in a story. Sometimes the narrator is in the story; his knowledge is limited. Sometimes the narrator is hovering above the story; his knowledge is almost divine, then, omniscient. He knows the events of the story, the characters" thoughts, etc.
