Chronicle

This passage gives us, the reader, an all-encompassing view of the narrator and his characteristics and relationships with other characters in the book. The narrator shows us through his style of storytelling how he perceives the world around him. Conversely, we can deduce from his style his position in the world of this text. There are two important facets to the narrator that come through in this extract. Firstly, the narrator develops an air of …

…passage: ?Indian death village? (p102) We know that the narrator has no special recognition of death as a particularly horrible act, so the fact that he calls the town the equivalent of a village of death does not strike the reader as much. This can explain his liberal use of explicit and gory imagery to describe the disgusting deaths of Santiago and the rabbits in other parts of the novella. Finally, his journey of self-enlightenment