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Point of View: What We Are Shown — Homework
Reread the opening two pages of chapter one, paying attention to what the narrator tells us that Buck himself could never know.
- 1.Name one piece of information the narrator gives readers that Buck never understands.
- 2.Does the narration ever enter a human character's thoughts directly? What effect does that have on the reader's sympathy?
- 3.Name the literary term for when the audience knows something a character does not.
- 4.Explain why not understanding the reasons behind his own suffering might make Buck seem MORE sympathetic to a reader, not less.
- 5.In four to six sentences, describe a movie or show you know that uses a similar gap between what the audience knows and what the main character knows.
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