Narrative techniques

Oktober 27, 2010

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Narrative techniques

The novel “A lesson before dying” by Ernest J. Gaines is almost written in the first-person narrator named Grant Wiggins. The effect of that is that the reader gets every time to know how Wiggins feels and thinks about the situation, by what the narrator gets the readers’ attention and they started to compare their feelings with the narrator’s feelings. The author used also direct speech, so that you get other perspectives of the situation and the story becomes really alive and varied. Interesting is that the story starts with the judicial proceeding in Bayonne and primal later you get to know how that all happened. That makes the novel very trilling. Another point is the description of the area, whereby you get to know the circumstances at that time or the segregation, for example the separated toilets in the jail.