Sunday, April 21, 2013

Mondays' lesson - Positioning techniques in Chain of Hearts


Positioning techniques in Chain of Hearts
Chain of Hearts uses many positioning techniques to convey its story and position readers to understand its characters and themes.  The most obvious of these is the use of multiple voices but a number of other positioning techniques are used in conjunction with this.

·         First person narration - chapters written using “I” and giving the writer’s point of view

·         Third person narration – chapters written using “he”, “she”. These are still written from the point of view of a particular character

·         First person / Italics - use of italics and first person to indicate a character’s thoughts within third person narration

·         Dialogues – Use of conversation to allow a character’s voice to emerge. This can be within a first person or third person section of narration

·         Letters – Use of a letter from one character to another to allow the character’s voice to emerge
 
Look out for these techniques as you read the novel and make note of their use in your Reading Record.

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