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My Reading of The Sky is Gray
Title: My Reading of The Sky is Gray
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1207 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
My Reading of The Sky is Gray
Ernest J. Gaines' "The Sky is Gray" in Madison Smartt Bell, Narrative Design:
Gaines is an established novelist, "The Sky is Gray" a story copyrighted in 1976.
The first thing I notice about this story, every time, are those numbered parts. Bell's
analysis of them on page 199 helps to explain why Gaines might number his sections.
This is a device more common in poetry. I think the numbers enhance the developmental
nature of the story. As …showed first 75 words of 1207 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…an agent once told me that he
doesn't usually read first-person novels. 2) Formally the first-person may not work for the
plots of some of these stories. Recently I got a comment from an editor I trust: the point
of view was working against a situation in which my reader learns more about my
character early on than she realizes about herself. A few more rejections and I might
consider rewriting the story in third person.
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