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What is the author's vantage point in this essay?
How does this perspective affect the narrative prose?
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How does this perspective affect the narrative prose?
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Thanks, Dylan
I think that author is viewing his past, especially his youth with his mother, from present. And when we recollect the past, we usually think it as a sweat and longing memory. From this fact, I thought that author wanted the readers to view his past as pleasant time, to describe it as a sweat past(Even though the actual trip was full of adversity!). In addition, reading this essay, I felt some kind of homesick of my past family trip. Also, I could infer that though the author's mother made a lot of mistakes, the author really loves his mother even now.
ReplyDeleteYeonHo Park, 2011-12262
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ReplyDeleteThe writer shows her story about her childhood as the 1st narrator, which means that she recalls her past story in her own perspective. Also the author recollects the anecdote in her present view. By writing the story in this way, first, the author can make readers feel the vivid impression that they are close to the actions in the story and that they can feel the characters in the story more familiar. Second, the readers can sympathize the author's impression with more ease. And last, the author can suggest her own impressions in two perspectives : her past perspective and her present perspective. By using these effective techniques, the author presents her impressions on her reminiscences which she thought as normal but now as special.
ReplyDeleteHyun-Suk Um, 2011-10858
What is the vantage point of the author in narrative prose?
ReplyDeleteI think the biggest vantage of the author is
he or she is the one who experienced and writes down the happeings. Because the author used first person he or she could show the scens more vividly and humorously. And the author could use wide range of words as he or she used first person to talk about his or her intimate person. Actually 'zany' is not the word people usually use when they describe a person who is not familiar with them. Also using first person could make readers sympathize with the author more easily by telling the readers exactly how the author felt about the affairs. If the author had used third person, he or she could not tell readers how the author and his or her brother thought at that time.
How does this perspective affect the narrative prose?
The first person perspective affects at narrative prose in the way of telling the readers how the author felt or thought about the things the author is narrating. The author who is using this perspective can write directly how his or her emotion So that the author can appeal more strongly to readers. Therefore readers can more easily sympathize with the author's feeling and opinoin. Furthermore, if the author writes in spacial order or chronicle order with this perspective, readers reading the narration will feel as if they are in the space or at the time being narrated because the author writes what he or she is watching.
2011-10178 Hwang Yujin
In my opinion, the author is using first person viewpoint that he/she is very close to the story (The andecdotes are author's own experience) and is looking back on the past experience. As using first person viewpoint, the author uses simple past tense to tell us what he/she experienced and let us symphathize,attached emotionally to the story.
ReplyDeleteAnd as the author is child of main character, author tells the story in friendly, informal tone so we can intimately enjoy humor in it.
Thinking these facts, using this perspective (firse person, close to story) can affect the narrative prose in the aspect of the distance with readers, use of vocabularies, ceremoniousness of prose.
김승이(Kim Seung-I), 2010-10737
As other students already mentioned above, I think first person narration is the author's vintage point. In this essay, the writer talkes about 'his' or 'her' story not others. Because the author experienced the story, he or she could convey concrete stories and vivid images so that readers are also able to catch them well. I think 'mother', the subject of the essay, is also one of the vintage points. Essays about family, especially about mother, make readers feel comfortable and friendly so readers can be attached to the story emotionally. The unexpected theme is also the author's vintage point. We generally imagine mom with careful and relaxing images. However, by shwoing zany, eccentric figure as mother, the author attracts readers' attention.
ReplyDelete2010-10433 Park Eunji
In this story, writer observed her absent-minded mother. So this essay is written in the first person point of view. This perspective gives information about how writer think of her mother. Probably she thanks to her mother because her mother gaves a marvelous attitude toward the world and also presented an interesting childhood to a writer. And this point of view is eligible to show anecdotes related to her mother because this point of view helps to show writer's innocent view toward her mother and gives lively details to reader. I think this essay become a more vivid story because of this perspective.
ReplyDelete2011-12325 Chun JungKwon