Transcript Narrative Style - Ms. Keeler's Heavy Haunt

NARRATIVE STYLE
The author tells us what the character thinks and
sets the thoughts within quotation marks.
 He
thought, “I am so bored. I don’t really care
about this stupid book, but I have to take
these notes.”
 Write
your own example
DIRECT DISCOURSE (SPEECH)
The author tells us what the character thinks
without using quotation marks.
 He
thought that although he was forced to
write the notes, he didn’t care about the book
and he was bored.
 Write
your own example
INDIRECT DISCOURSE (SPEECH)
The author blends the character’s thoughts and
feelings with normal speech.
 The
notes were painful to write as his apathy
for the book could be easily evidenced.
Almost every mention of Flaubert served to
prolong his epic boredom.
 Write
your own example
FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE (SPEECH)
 There
is a melding of the narrator and character so
that the narrator seems to get inside the character
 The
reader has a more intimate and immediate
access to a character's thoughts and feelings without
the sense of the narrator being the intermediary
 The
objectivity of the narrator is softened by the
subjectivity of the character's consciousness
 As
the character's consciousness unfolds, we are more
aware of how those thoughts and feelings contribute
to the direction of the story.
FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE: WHY?
She repeated, 'I have a lover! a lover!'
delighting at the idea as if a second puberty
had come to her. So at last she was to know
those joys of love, that fever of happiness of
which she had despaired! She was entering
upon a marvelous world where all would be
passion, ecstasy, delirium. (Flaubert)
The last two sentences are free and indirect.
FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE: WHY?