Andrew Post #1

I decided to write my post on the third prompt we were given, which is about how two of the short stories that we have read are told from the perspective of an outside narrator. I think that the authors of "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston and "Fleur" by Louise Erdrich told the story through the perspective of an outside narrator in an attempt to possibly exaggerate how we view the central character of the story. We get to see how the other people of society view the central character instead of how the central character views the other people. This could be helpful to the reader because we get to see the the central character in a whole different light. We can help get a complete picture of what is going in when we can see things from different perspectives. We can see the story in another way, and it can help us get a better understanding of the characters and how they act and believe. A new perspective allows us to see things in characters that we would not have been able to see, and both of the authors of these pieces help to show us this.