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Narrative techniques of 'I go along' by Richard Peck

created by: Rose, Julia, Lukas, Lucas

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3. Structure

Plot: main events, theme of a story

  • parts are told directly

line 100: '[...] the poet comes in.'

  • parts are told from one character to another

line 22: 'We're going to hear a poet read from his works'

2. Chronology

~Story is told in a logical chronology~

- small 'back story'

-> Illustration of the history of characters, objects, etc. ..

line 1-10

1. Relationship between author, narrator, reader and character

-Description of events, characters, etc.

-> Dialogues to reveal characters' thoughts and feelings

1. Relationship between author, narrator, reader and character

line 101-103: Description of the poet

line 166- 172: Dialogue between Gene and Sharon

-Stream-of-consciousness

-> hardly any distance between reader & characters

- Point of view: Gene is the narrator

-> you feel closer to the story/characters

-> Controle of what reader gets to know and when

line 103-105: 'It's weird, like there could be poets around you and you wouldn't realize they were there'

line 32: 'I go along'

-Tense: Present tense

-> feels as if it's happening right now

past tense used in single cases to clearify the content

line 33: 'She's never seen this many hands up in our class'

- Irony

-> narrator/reader knows sth. the characters don't

line 35: 'Which is something Darla could learn from'

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