Singular Narration In Recitatif By Toni Morrison
Part A:
• The verbal quality of narration is called the voice.
• The visual angle of narration is called focus.
• Third Person: tells the reader what happened by using the pronouns he, she, or they
• First Person: Singular narration uses the pronoun I
• Second Person: Refers to themselves as “we”
• Tense: It affects how the story is told
• Narrator versus Implied Author: The person who is telling the story
Part B:
In the story “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, the narrator Twyla is satisfied with the way her life is even though, she was not rich or did not have a mother that cared for her; she was happy with what she had. In the story she says “the food was good though. At least I thought so” (Morrison 132). It shows that she was satisfied with the food she was given compared to her friend Roberta who …show more content…
Twyla was also happy she became friends with Roberta and they did everything together from running in the orchards, failing their classes, to changing beds each night. As well as her life as an adult “James is as comfortable as a house slipper. He liked my cooking and I liked his big loud family” (Morrison 138). It shows that she has found a husband and a family who she loves and gets along with. The narrator is reliable, because she was there experiencing everything first hand it was her life and her story to tell. She experiences many conflicts along the way from being put in the shelter, and making a friend to her getting taken back home leaving Twyla all alone. “I thought I would die in the room of four beds without her” (Morrison 136). This causes a conflict because Roberta was the only friend that she had, without
• The verbal quality of narration is called the voice.
• The visual angle of narration is called focus.
• Third Person: tells the reader what happened by using the pronouns he, she, or they
• First Person: Singular narration uses the pronoun I
• Second Person: Refers to themselves as “we”
• Tense: It affects how the story is told
• Narrator versus Implied Author: The person who is telling the story
Part B:
In the story “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, the narrator Twyla is satisfied with the way her life is even though, she was not rich or did not have a mother that cared for her; she was happy with what she had. In the story she says “the food was good though. At least I thought so” (Morrison 132). It shows that she was satisfied with the food she was given compared to her friend Roberta who …show more content…
Twyla was also happy she became friends with Roberta and they did everything together from running in the orchards, failing their classes, to changing beds each night. As well as her life as an adult “James is as comfortable as a house slipper. He liked my cooking and I liked his big loud family” (Morrison 138). It shows that she has found a husband and a family who she loves and gets along with. The narrator is reliable, because she was there experiencing everything first hand it was her life and her story to tell. She experiences many conflicts along the way from being put in the shelter, and making a friend to her getting taken back home leaving Twyla all alone. “I thought I would die in the room of four beds without her” (Morrison 136). This causes a conflict because Roberta was the only friend that she had, without