NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE

[sgalle]

A story may be narrated in first-person or third-person.

First-person narrators actually appear in the story. They may be reliable (you believe them) or unreliable (you do not always trust their version of the story).

Third-person narratives may be limited (the story does not tell us what is happening inside characters' heads) or they may be omniscient (they know everything, including thoughts).

Which perspective is the work you read in, and how does this affect the work overall?

[lucasmaldonado]

The book Anthem is narrated in a first person narrator. The narrator is the protagonist of the story. In this particular book, the first person narrator explains in full detail what is on his mind, and the steps he takes to understand the world. Like this, the ideas of the author are easily transmitted, because it can tell more than what the protagonist is doing, but what the protagonist is thinking also. And because this book is all about the discovery of new things and the quest for knowledge, the first person narrator is excellent to transmit the story by allowing the reader understand what the protagonist is thinking while he discovers new things. The protagonist in this book keeps a journal in which he explains all his thoughts and feelings, and like that transmits his emotions and ideas to the reader. In this way it’s easier to foreshadow the story and events that will come, as well as understand what the protagonist felt about what happened in the past.

Lucas Maldonado

[Juan Esteban Uquillas]

The book Anthem consists of a first person narrator that is also the protagonist of the book. The first person narrator of the book tells the story in the present while he is going through the book. This narrator explains what is happening in the book and also tell us what is it that he is thinking. Because this book is about discoveries and new ideas, the first person narrator helps us and makes it easier for us to understand what is going on. Also, this first person narrator transmits feelings and emotions to us because he tells us his thoughts while the book is going on.

Juan Esteban Uquillas

[jeuquillas]

The book Anthem consists of a first person narrator that is also the protagonist of the book. The first person narrator of the book tells the story in the present while he is going through the book. This narrator explains what is happening in the book and also tell us what is it that he is thinking. Because this book is about discoveries and new ideas, the first person narrator helps us and makes it easier for us to understand what is going on. Also, this first person narrator transmits feelings and emotions to us because he tells us his thoughts while the book is going on.

Juan Esteban Uquillas

[asalazar]

The fictional novel Anthem has a first person protagonist narrator. Equality 7-2521 is in the novel the narrator and protagonist that tells his story and his thoughts through the book. First person perspective can be unreliable because you cant be compleatly sure of the main characters version of the story but in this novel the author gives the character such emotions and feelings about his thoughts that can be transmitted to the reader easily that makes the reliability of the story easy to believe.

Aaron Salazar

[msilva]

In the novel Anthem there is a first person narrator. this narrator is also the protagonist of the story, Equality 7-2521, were he tells the story from his point of view. throughout the stroy he also tells us what he is thinking in a very detailed way. the first person perspective can be reliable because its told from someone that actually is in the story especially in the case of Equality 7-2521 because he tells what he had to go throw in a very discriptive way.

marco silva

[nicolas]

In the book Anthem, there is a first person narrator which is also the protagonist of the story. Equality 7-2521 exposes his feelings and ideas throughout each action and it makes it easier for the reader to understand the plot if the person who narrates it is the protagonist. In this case, the first person narrator makes the reader feel each emotion as if being involved in the novel itself. This really engages the reader and it is one of the positive aspects of the story affected by its first person narrator. It is a reliable first person narrator because such feelings expressed by him make it easy for the reader to engage and actually believe what is going on in the novel.

Nicolas Larrea

[santiagopaz]

In the book Anthem Equality 7-2521 tells us the story, this means it is a first person narrator. Equality 7-2521 is also the protagonist of this story. He lives mostly in a controlled society and can be easily reliable since he is telling us from what is happening day to day. Equality 7-2521 is a narrator that can be easily understood and also it is very easy to get what he is getting through at which point of the story. There is some hard moments in which he takes decisions and all the ideas he has are clearly described.

Santiago Paz

[jpallares]

This book is narrated in a first- person perspective. By being narrated in this way, readers can identify themselves much more than in a third-person perspective. Equality 7-2521 is the protagonist and he is the one who tells the story, that way he tells the story with his thoughts and believes that cant be shown if written in a third-person narrative. Also by this way the ideas of the author are not to complex to gasp. In my opinion, a book written in a first-person narrative is much simpler to understand and to have an expanded idea about the plot, climax, etc.

Juan Diego Pallares