Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1821 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Style Matching Consciousness
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The idea
The prose does not describe a child's mind; it adopts it. Unit ten's rule was that free indirect discourse selects what the character would notice. Here it goes further and selects the words the character would have, which is the technique at its limit.
In practice
It adopts the mind rather than describing it.
Where people slip
The technique, taken to its limit.
Your place on the trail
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