...also the author? This is for my Grade 11 English class, it's a short story and I have to answer questions about it. The first question is "Describe the narrator of the story. Provide as many details as possible".
The story is called "Green Gulch" and first paragraph of the story is "We stood in a wide flat field at sunset. For the life of me I can remember no other children before them. I must have run away and been playing by myself until I had wandered to the edge of the town. They were older than I and knew where they came from and how to get back. I joined them".
Is the narrator a child, or is the narrator an adult looking back at his or her childhood? Is the author the narrator? The author's name is Loren Eiseley so does that mean she is the narrator, which would mean I should identify the narrator as an adult female (the author/narrator) looking back on her experience as a child, or is the narrator separate from the actual author? Or should I try to describe the narrator without reference to gender, age, etc?
The story is called "Green Gulch" and first paragraph of the story is "We stood in a wide flat field at sunset. For the life of me I can remember no other children before them. I must have run away and been playing by myself until I had wandered to the edge of the town. They were older than I and knew where they came from and how to get back. I joined them".
Is the narrator a child, or is the narrator an adult looking back at his or her childhood? Is the author the narrator? The author's name is Loren Eiseley so does that mean she is the narrator, which would mean I should identify the narrator as an adult female (the author/narrator) looking back on her experience as a child, or is the narrator separate from the actual author? Or should I try to describe the narrator without reference to gender, age, etc?