The Smell Of Fresh Paint Analysis

I do not think that these stories would have been as effective if it was told from a different point of view. Furthermore I believe this because the narrator was at the center of all the events of the story. In “The Smell of Fresh Paint” it says “I was the first responder to a building within our compound that was hit by a rocket.” This displays how the narrator was the first to deal with the problem of the story. Later on in the story it says “The first Iraqi I saw came briskly walking down the street toward me.” This shows the narrator was confronted first by the man and how if it was told by someone else it would've been different. Then in the story it says “I couldn’t figure out why he didn't hear me calling for him.”In conclusion I think