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In High School we were usually told to "Make like a tree…" Melinda here has to make, like, a tree. Art stuff. We're painting with a broad-brush t...
Speak Part 15: Perspective 58 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Speak perspective i'll ashman From
- 00:12
what perspective is the narration being presented This is a
- 00:16
first person narrative but it's also not like a perfectly
- 00:20
continuous narrative Melinda tells the story through flashbacks The story
- 00:27
is kind of broken up and we also know that
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- 00:31
it's from her sort of biased perspective because of the
- 00:33
way she talks about other characters So referring to andy
- 00:38
has it for so long and you could question linda's
- 00:44
trustworthiness as a narrator because of that But what's important
- 00:48
here is that questioning her a little bit doesn't mean
- 00:52
questioning her entirely She's not lying to us she's just
- 00:58
someone who has experienced something from attic and still recovering
- 01:02
for it from it So her sort of shakiness is
- 01:08
more an indication of how the events in her life
- 01:11
have affected her than a sign that we shouldn't believe
- 01:14
her From what perspective is the narration being presented I 00:01:26.439 --> [endTime] can't
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