Dark taverns lite warmly and dimly of lantern light, more than a place a stage for which heroes slay dragons and monsters lurk through the night. In the centuries before mass literacy there were few stories of any literal value, bards told classic stories to fill the time. Most of these archaic texts, including classics such as The Odyssey and Beowulf, were solely remembered through verbal retellings, told from the point of the narrator. In these stories a valiant hero, like Beowulf or Odysseus, must vanquish a beast and complete a journey. The audience in enraptured by the linear sequential story and desire to be akin to these amazing heroes. When telling the story from an outside perspective the hero is placed upon a pedestal and glorified, this was the original literature.
As time progresses and people have the ability to transcribe their ideas and stories onto the pages creating beautiful worlds with words; the narrator shifted from an outside observer to a first person account of the story which could only happen to the protagonist. Jane Eyre, about a …show more content…
The story is about Pecola, a young black girl ostracized by society, who is never able to tell her story, she is silenced by the society which marginalized her. This narrative, especially the seasonal sections written as “the diary,” finally gives “a voice to the voiceless” (Malmgren 155). This is the essential point to most Post Modern novels, representing those who were normally forgotten by literature and history, Malmgren argues that the use of multiple narrators brings this issue to life; this is why Pecola never really gets a chance to tell her own story, it is told for her by those around her, because that how history has been written, by those who are remembered, those who are important enough to be