Sentence examples for switching narrator from inspiring English sources

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So switching narrator was the only way".

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But it's Auggie and the rest of the children who are the real heart of "Wonder," and Palacio captures the voices of girls and boys, fifth graders and teenagers, with equal skill, switching narrators every few chapters to include Auggie's friends and his teenage sister, Via, who wrestles with her resentment, guilt and concern.

It takes quite a long while to boil down to that, what with the size of the Price family tree, the amount of unadulterated chat that goes on between branches, and Ms. McMillan's ponderous way of switching narrators without having really distinct narrative voices.

Most of us only get a few of those in any lifetime, so I could either keep dumping this poor character into huge life-defining crises every couple of years, in which case he's going to end up in a hospital, or I could switch narrator.

He mixes conventional storytelling with magic realism and switches narrators often.

For one thing, it switches narrators from paragraph to paragraph, so that Sarah's account to the reader will segue straight into Chubb's story to her; the "I" may refer to either one of them.

What I remembered loving so strongly as a child was that, unlike the usual archetype setups, we may have identified with one of these characters over the other but with the books switching off narrators every volume, each gave a loving yet utterly honest view of every other girl.

"I thought, I can do the conventional series thing where you follow the ups and downs of one character," she explained, "or I can switch the narrators and save myself from the 'Mousetrap' syndrome, playing the same part for 10 years, and after a while you realize that you've been playing on autopilot".

The story of a family living in a house that seems to expand internally, it became a cult classic among readers who were drawn in by the author's typographical high jinks – the fonts switched between narrators, and the word "house" was always printed in blue.

A vampy, jazzy "16 Tons" sinks like a stone; so does "He Stopped Loving Her Today," a piece of mawkishness so pure that switching to a female narrator doesn't alter the song's impact very much.

In Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, against all the conventions of fiction in her day, the narrator switches entirely to the present for the most charged episodes of her story - as if she were, entranced, re-experiencing it rather than "telling" it.

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