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From: Dr. Ruth I. Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 15:28:09 -0700
CCBC-ers: I am not sure if I am being unintelligent--again--but wonder if it really matters into what genre "View-Sat" falls. What is important is the comple weaving of a story that comes together as a whole, unseamed piece of cloth. Various first person narration techniques reveal character; third person narration (or "exposition" should you wish to be formal) carries one chapter to the next and one situation and character to the next.
Characters are fascinating--but I'm not sure that the veddy formal boy who lived aboard ships is meant to be anything more symbolic than what he is: a fascinating character who knows many things that others do not. But then again, each character knows something that others do not and thus can apply themselves to the exciting contests in which they are ultimately triumphant.
Humor abounds to relieve the tension of the sporting event--the academic games. Dialogue fits each person and reveals more about character.
More to be said--but it's Saturday here and the garden needs fertilizing--that's what the view from this Saturday shows.
Farmerette Gordon
================="You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Sat 03 May 1997 05:28:09 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 15:28:09 -0700
CCBC-ers: I am not sure if I am being unintelligent--again--but wonder if it really matters into what genre "View-Sat" falls. What is important is the comple weaving of a story that comes together as a whole, unseamed piece of cloth. Various first person narration techniques reveal character; third person narration (or "exposition" should you wish to be formal) carries one chapter to the next and one situation and character to the next.
Characters are fascinating--but I'm not sure that the veddy formal boy who lived aboard ships is meant to be anything more symbolic than what he is: a fascinating character who knows many things that others do not. But then again, each character knows something that others do not and thus can apply themselves to the exciting contests in which they are ultimately triumphant.
Humor abounds to relieve the tension of the sporting event--the academic games. Dialogue fits each person and reveals more about character.
More to be said--but it's Saturday here and the garden needs fertilizing--that's what the view from this Saturday shows.
Farmerette Gordon
================="You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
Received on Sat 03 May 1997 05:28:09 PM CDT
