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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:55:27 -0500
Thinking about Sallys's comemnt, I agree--the narrator provides perspective and tone that would not have worked in Frankie's voice. For me what is so striking is that this just an omniscient narrator, it's an opinionated one. And I think for a reader, that has the potential to incites a strong, opinionated response.
Even when I wasn't always loving the narrator, I think I can appreciate the crafting of that voice--and its role--from a literary perspective.
(Thanks in part to Sally :)
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Sally Miller wrote:
> Maybe it's an age thing? I am Old (chronologically) and I found the voice in this book very enjoyable, not the least distracting or off-putting. It's somewhat out-of-fashion, I think, for an authorial voice to be so prominent, but how else would E. Lockhart have infused the book with such a wealth of wry humored commentary? I can't think of a single teenager in my acquaintance who would be able to achieve such a detached, amused tone--Frankie is perceptive, but as a heroine emotionally involved in events, she would be completely unbelievable if all the social commentary were put into her voice. As a writer, teacher, and grand-parent, I like to see a young adult novel that isn't confined to first-person, or omniscient first person, so that young readers get used to attending to more elements of the novel than just the plot line. But to do that, you have to slow down and become a more participatory reader. I'm glad to see from the popularity of the book that some young reader
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> are willing to do that. (Apologies if I haven't expressed my ideas very cogently. Literary analysis has never been my strongpoint.) Sally Derby
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Received on Tue 24 Mar 2009 12:55:27 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:55:27 -0500
Thinking about Sallys's comemnt, I agree--the narrator provides perspective and tone that would not have worked in Frankie's voice. For me what is so striking is that this just an omniscient narrator, it's an opinionated one. And I think for a reader, that has the potential to incites a strong, opinionated response.
Even when I wasn't always loving the narrator, I think I can appreciate the crafting of that voice--and its role--from a literary perspective.
(Thanks in part to Sally :)
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
608/262-9503 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Sally Miller wrote:
> Maybe it's an age thing? I am Old (chronologically) and I found the voice in this book very enjoyable, not the least distracting or off-putting. It's somewhat out-of-fashion, I think, for an authorial voice to be so prominent, but how else would E. Lockhart have infused the book with such a wealth of wry humored commentary? I can't think of a single teenager in my acquaintance who would be able to achieve such a detached, amused tone--Frankie is perceptive, but as a heroine emotionally involved in events, she would be completely unbelievable if all the social commentary were put into her voice. As a writer, teacher, and grand-parent, I like to see a young adult novel that isn't confined to first-person, or omniscient first person, so that young readers get used to attending to more elements of the novel than just the plot line. But to do that, you have to slow down and become a more participatory reader. I'm glad to see from the popularity of the book that some young reader
s
> are willing to do that. (Apologies if I haven't expressed my ideas very cogently. Literary analysis has never been my strongpoint.) Sally Derby
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