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Lesson 1 (from Part 1, High and Low: Chapters 1 -15)

Objective

Part 1, High and Low: Chapters 1 -15: Roman Blood starts with Gordianus telling the story from his point of view. This lesson will explore narrative point of view and look at why an author would choose a given narrator.

Lesson

1. Class Discussion: What other characters would make sense as narrators of this story? Why would they be good narrators? What does the author achieve in using Gordianus as the narrator? This is told in first person. How would the story be different in told by a third person narrator?

2. Small Group Discussions: What kind of limitations does an author face when using a first person narrator? (possible answers: can only see the events which that character sees, can only experience the story from his perspective and no one else's, do not always know what the other characters think). How does this first person point of view increase...

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