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This 3 page paper describes the function of the narrator in the wonderful children's books "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "A Wizard of Earthsea." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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tells the reader whats happening. This paper describes the function of the narrator in the wonderful childrens books Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone and A Wizard of Earthsea.
Discussion There are several narration styles and each is used for a reason. If the narrator is telling the story in first person, then he is in the
story and is speaking directly to the reader, using the word "I", as in "I opened the door slowly." A first person narration can be exciting and scary, because
the reader knows only as much as the narrator himself. Thats why this narration is often used for mysteries. Second person is very difficult to pull off; its when
the narrator addresses the reader as "you," effectively putting the reader in the story: "You hurry through the deserted Oper? and down to the Phantoms lair, almost running in
your haste; hoping that he will be waiting for you." Its almost impossible to sustain this style, which becomes stilted and cumbersome very quickly. (Thats not a real
quote; apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber.) By far the most often used narrative style, and one found in both Harry Potter and A Wizard of Earthsea, is third person.
There are actually three types of third person narration: third person objective; third person omniscient; and third person limited (Talib). When the narrator is using third person objective, "the
observer is `objective, in the sense that no direct account of what it thinks or perceives is given"; he or she simply tells whats going on (Talib). The third person
omniscient narrator knows everything about everything, about the characters, their actions and how theyre feeling; this narrator "can move from place to place and backwards and forwards in time, and
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