Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0927 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Double Time-Frame
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The idea
A retrospective first-person narrator is two people: the one who lived it and the one telling it afterwards. Which of the two a sentence belongs to is a genuine exam question, settled by whether it knows more than the child could.
In practice
The one who lived it, and the one telling.
Where people slip
Ask which of the two knows this.
Your place on the trail
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