• 1st person narrative – Eva – woman, mother, church mother
• Tells what she knows and what has been passed on to her – also what is public knowledge
• To Maintain the Oral tradition - oral historian – unifies the voices in her community
• Role of the Chantwell – singer at a stick fight – Eva is responsible for collecting the stories organize them and disseminate them.
N.P.V and N.Technique
• Affects how the story is told
• Non –linear manner – present – near past – distant past – present
• Narrates the events in regular story telling fashion - filling in background information as the issues arise – digression frequent and relevant
• Forces the reader/listen to pay attention as the narrator moves all over the events
N.P.V and N. Style
• Personal link allows for intimacy of events being told
• Strong use of images – those relevant and familiar with the lifestyle of narrator eg. pg.12 ‘sea gulls dipping like kites’, pg 9 ‘God gone from it’
N.P.V and Characterization
• What is given about the characters - how Eva and her community sees them
• Distinction already being made regarding who is in good standing and whose character is questionable.
• Details of certain behaviour already being highlighted – e.g. The Richardson, Ivan, Bee and Bolo
N.P.V. and Plot
• Suspense already heightens – digression fosters this – keeps the reader in anticipation
• Suspense at end of chapter
• Conflicts already visible from Bee and Ivan
• Tension obviously brewing
N.P.V and Theme
• Racism and prejudice already evident – Buntin not getting a loan
• Manhood and Integrity (being questioned) – Bee and Ivan Morton
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