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Bilgewater: General

Task B - Summarising your intuitive understanding

Now write down a few sentences summarising your intuitive understanding of the passage and is effects, which you can then compare with ours. In your summary account, please include: (a) a discussion of what kind of narration we have in the passage, (b) what tense the narrative is in and (c) what viewpoint manipulation you notice (in particular, is there a focalised character, and if so, who?).

You may find it helpful to try to draw the picture depicted by sentences 2-4 and 43-4 as you think about this. You will find a link to enable you to refer to the passage under the 'useful links' section of the menu on the left.

 

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