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Post by Gwen Bloomsburg on May 18, 2010 11:07:43 GMT -5
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?
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Post by Sebastian Villacreces on Aug 23, 2010 21:01:00 GMT -5
I believe that this story is told by a third person, who is the author. This person is omniscient because he gets into peoples thoughts and is telling them during the narration. The narrator is telling everything he is looking at. This perspective shows everything thats happening in the novel and what I liked was that it did not leave anything behind. The narrator includes everything and everyone involved in the story and does not leave any detail out. This is a great aspect for the book because it makes feel inside the story and it does not leave you questioning about the situation. This also makes follow the story and does not lose you out of the story.
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Post by jorgelara on Aug 24, 2010 21:57:44 GMT -5
The novel has been narrated in a third person omniscient. We can tell the narrator is omniscient because it knows every detail about it's characters and story. As any other narrator we can see how he changes his perspectives in different parts of the book; giving the ability to make the reader entertained and always figure out the changes of attitude made through the book. what I most liked about Saramago's narrator is that it always makes the reader feel that your a playing a paper inside the novel; all though sometimes i felt confused in some parts of the story. I enjoy reading novels that have this type of narrator because it helps you to know most details of everything including character. this type of narrator doesn't makes any trouble in the over-all but only makes the reader confused sometimes.
Jorge Lara
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Post by dome ayala on Aug 28, 2010 0:33:35 GMT -5
This story is told in a third person perspective which is the author. The author does not get involved physically or mentally in the story but it definitely gets inside the characters thoughts and feelings and describes it in a way that makes us understand each character very well. It also brings out the different personalities and ways of thinking of each individual. I really liked this narrative because it was descriptive and insightful all thorough out the story. The author did not get involved at all in the story but it felt like he was. This story was definitely better in a third person perspective because we got to know everyones thoughts not only from one like if it was written in a first person perspective.
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Post by ralbornozr on Aug 28, 2010 16:53:48 GMT -5
The novel is narrated in third person, omniscient, the author describes the thoughts of the characters and we know what they think. In some occasions, the author lets us know his opinion (first person), leading us to think as he thinks in specific situations. An example in which the author gives us his opinion is when he describes the girl in the dark glasses; “…out of natural misanthropy or because of too many disappointments in life, any ordinary sceptic, familiar with the details of this woman’s life, would insinuate that the prettiness of her smile…..this woman could be classed as a prostitute, but the complexity of the web of social relationships…” (page 22-23). Being an omniscient narrator for most of the time, leads the reader to believe in his few personal opinions.
Rafaela Albornoz R.
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Post by Estefania Jervis on Aug 29, 2010 16:06:54 GMT -5
Blindness is a story which is narrated in third where we can understand the feelings and thoughts within the character which makes the narrator omniscient, this way we get to know each characters reaction to this terrible disease called “white blindness”. In many occasions the author expresses himself giving his personal opinion about the events that are occurring in the story. This changes the reader’s perspective and guides it to a more specific idea the author is trying to communicate. At the beginning of chapter two we can see how Jose Saramago gives his opinion about the car thief when he says “On offering to help the blind man who then stole his car, had not, at the precise moment, had any evil in tention, quite the contrary, what he did was nothing more than to obey those feelings of generosity…” (Page 16) The way that this book is narrated affects in many different aspects the way readers understand the theme as well as the internal conflicts within the characters. In personal opinion I believe that it’s better that this book is narrated in third person because this way we can understand how every single person have different ways to react to problems that strike our lives all the time.
Estefania Jervis Dávalos
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Post by mjcevallos on Aug 29, 2010 20:15:18 GMT -5
The novel Blindness by Jose Saramago has a third person perspective. I think that the one who is telling the story is the same author, Jose Saramago. The third person perspective helps the story because the characters in the story don’t know what exactly is happening because of their blindness. The narrator is omniscient because he knows everything that happens in the story even do he isn’t part of it. He knows what the characters think and knows all the actions of the story. Being an omniscient narrator it gives the opportunity to the one who is telling the story to give his opinion and also connect what is happening with his own experiences. But this is only limited. I think this makes the novel better because the readers can know everything that is happening in the story. By: Maria Jose Cevallos 11th D
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Post by cbenitez on Aug 29, 2010 20:58:21 GMT -5
The novel is told in a 3rth person perspective. The reader can easaly notice this because the narrator knows everything that is happenning in the story and describe each character thoughts and feelings. This maybe describes the story more clearly but it reduces the chances to critisize the facts more clearly. I defenetly thing that third person narrative perspective is not the best type of narration for me. First person narrative perspective is much better because perssonaly i can critizise the thoughts of the narrator and analyze much further the things that the narrator is saying. Not only beliving his perspective of the story but also trying to analyze or critizise his actions in the novel and or the way he is telling the facts.
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Post by mjcarrera on Aug 29, 2010 21:00:16 GMT -5
Since the narrator doesn’t appears in the story but knows everything about what is happening, knows all the details and the character´s thoughts, I can say that the narrative perspective is in third person and is omniscient. Even though the narrator is not involved in the story, it seems that he really is involved because he describes each character in detail, he knows how they feel and what they think. He also describes each situation the characters go through and what are the different points of view. The narrator describes the story very deeply making the reader understand easily and in detail what is happening throughout the book. This type of narration makes the reader feel involved with the book and attracts the reader. Maria Jose Carrera
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Post by emilianaranjo on Aug 29, 2010 21:19:59 GMT -5
José Saramago develops this book throughout a third person narrative which seems to be the author. This narrative character is omniscient since he has knowledge of everything that is happening in the book and it´s context as well as in each character mind their feeling and thoughts. This affects the work overall because through this narrative we can get to know more in detail what is going on, and because is more descriptive the story gets more interesting. By having more knowledge of little details the story gets more exited and you wanted to read more, which helps to keep track of the theme and conflict.
emilia naranjo
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Post by Melissa Vorbeck on Aug 29, 2010 23:24:00 GMT -5
The narrative perspective in the novel is always third-person omniscient. In my opinion this affects the overall work because you can get a better picture of everything. By saying this, I mean that you can experience something from different points of view.
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Post by bernardalvarez on Aug 30, 2010 22:28:24 GMT -5
In this book, its very clear that the novel is narrated by an omniscient narrator, since it is in a third person point of view and we can know everything about the novel, about the character’s feelings and what is happening at all times. This is something that I consider very good in a book, because it lets the reader have a complete knowledge of everything that is going on, this also lets us comprehend the novel in every aspect, not just from one point of view. For example we are able to see this blindness through the eyes of every character, knowing what they feel, what they think, what they do and what they want. We can also see the epidemic through the eyes of the character that is able to always see, the doctor’s wife. She has a different perspective since she sees what is really happening. This is why it affects the work overall.
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