Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Ways of Dying

I wanted to bring up the question of who is the narrator in the novel? In both "Season of Migration to the North" and "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" the narrator is a character in the story. In "Untouchable" the narrator is all knowing. In "Ways of Dying", the narrator continuously refers to itself as "we". For example, on page 13, "We were happy when they were happy...In the beginning, there were times when we tried to get them together..." Throughout the rest of the book there are many moments where the narrator refers to itself as "we." My question is, could this "we" represent an entire community that knows the story of Toloki and Noria or is it something different altogether?

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