Chart Cues: Credibility of the Narrator Lines (Quotes) | Reflections / Reactions | Conclusion: Do these lines enhance or detract from the credibility of the narrative voice. | “This book was born as I was hungry” (Martel I) | -She must have not been born to a lot of wealth-In a symbolic sense it could mean that he is was hungry for knowledge specifically in literature and filled with hunger by creating the book. | -I feel as though It detracts the narratives voice because the quote was so vague, and unexplained. It leaves the reader curious and as though there is no explanation to the quote | “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” (Martel I) | -She’s very in tuned with her community and nationality, just by that quote alone, It would not be surprise me if she was an activist who cares for the people’s needs- She must have had a life changing experience or have been mentored by the best in order to publicly share her feelings of what believes is right and what is wrong | -This lines definitely enhances the narrative voice it gave me chills as a I read it the second, because I was not able to process the meaning of it the first timeThe language and the delivery of each word was so well placed, as wired as it may sound I felt like expressing myself any way possible once I processed its meaning | “The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can” (Martel I) | - The author has personified (giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas) both life and death. So, life and death are two people. So all you have to do to understand this quote is to imagine life as a beautiful young person and death as the jealous obsessive lover.
So death is in love with this beautiful young person (life) and like any other obsessive lover cannot bear to have life out of his sight and so it sticks to life at all times. | -There is no question that this line enhances the author’s narrative voice, the use of literary devices and relating it to life was jaw dropping. The author explains this with a personification saying that the reason for this is because death is in love with life and behaves like a jealous possessive lover who cannot have his beloved out of his sight.This quote is therefore explaining why death is always lurking in every corner of life, why death is always so close and how it can easily spoil something as beautiful as life | "I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful” (Martel I) | It stuck out to me like a soar thumb that he is talking about work, and using a metaphor of a noose (the rope used to hang people) to describe the tie he wears. He says that whilst the tie is hanging from the wrong end, "inverted", it (his work) can lead him to his death if he's not careful. | Like many of the lines I have chosen this one enhances the authors narrative as well, the reason being because of all the uses of metaphorsOn a personal level I can relate to it because working two jobs one part time and full I feel like I am tied down | “I would have liked to say, ‘I’m a doctor,’ to those who asked me what I did” (Martel I) | Character is being shown by him, because in a situation like that many could have easily lied in order to be seen as something that is classified as being “better” | I feel as though unlike the other quotes I chose that this one reduces the storyteller's validity in light of the fact that this could be uncovering his very own piece identity, as somebody that decides to swindle others in the event that it is in his own particular best advantage. Might he be able to have majorly adjusted the occasions of the story he was advised so as to make his story convincing and connecting with to the pursuer for his own particular advantage | “I stuck to the humble, bruised truth” (Martel I) | My initial reaction was it showed his personality, and gave me a sense of who this characters is because I feel as though there will be other situations where his humbleness will be shown and displayed | This quote enhances the narrators voice because it gives a piece the puzzle of who the character is, as it shows how he is humble and it willing to exclaim the truth even if it is bruised |