Saturday, June 2, 2012

Post 2 Chapter 7-12


Post 2 Chapter 7-12

I don’t understand who is telling the story. I understand that it is in third person but I don’t understand what the focus of the narrator is. For example I don’t understand chapter 9. In the previous and subsequent chapters follow Kumalo on his journey to finding his son and siblings. Does chapter 9 follow different families in the black communities to give us, the readers, a insight into life in such a community?

1 comment:

  1. I thought that this was maybe a little confusing at first:


    point of view - Books I and III are largely told from Kumalo’s point of view, while Book II is told largely from Jarvis’s point of view. A number of chapters, however, feature a montage of voices from different layers of South African society, and the narrator also shows things from other characters’ perspectives from time to time.

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