이투스 리딩마스터 실전독해 7회 6번 분석노트
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The character you choose to narrate your novel will affect the overall voice, tone, and style of your work. It will also affect how the story gets told, what events are emphasized or de-emphasized, and how the events are filtered, through the character, to your reader. For instance, how might To Kill a Mockingbird have changed if it hadn’t been narrated by Scout, a child at the time of the novel’s main events? Scout is both innocent and nonjudgmental, which clearly comes to bear on the narrating of the events itself. What about the recent novel The Lovely Bones? This novel is narrated by Susie Salmon, who announces from the novel’s first sentence that she’s already dead and narrating from the great beyond. The novel would have been an entirely different entity altogether had a different character narrated it. One of the reasons readers are drawn in a novel so quickly, I imagine, is because of the point of view of the story.