IO question practice

How does the narrative voice/perspective/speaker affect your reading of the text and what it says about the global issue?

1 min on extract, rest can be on the body of work – IO tips

 

The text I will be exploring is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The help is written in 3 first person narrators, Aibeleen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Skeeter Phelan.

The text is written in a shaky command of African American Vernacular English, a dialect in which a large chunk of the book is written. Though the author’s intent may have been to accurately represent the black community, in the 1960’s, this shaky command may have had the opposite effect. Furthermore,

 

How does global issue/end of the text?

 

Authors life

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