The Narrator And The Artilleryman Analysis

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1. My initial impression is that the story was going to have a lot of action in it. My initial impression is based on the title.
2. The genre of this story is science fiction. Another genre of this story is fiction.
3. The exposition is when the author talked about how many people had never had a thought in there mind there could be outer space life. The rising action is when the people in Woking noticed flashes of lights from Mars. The climax is when the brother met the Elphingstones when someone tries to take their carriage. The falling action is when they learn that the martians mostly live off of human blood. The denouement is when the narrator goes to the city and the machines whuch the aliens used were all laying around.
4. The protagonist is the narrator and the Artilleryman. …show more content…

The narrator spoke in first person. Yes, the author used I during this story. For example: "I did not dare to go back towards the pit, but I felt a passionate longing to peer into it. I began walking, therefore, in a big curve, seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth".
9. The first person narrator is a major character. I say the narrator is a major character because the narrator is heard from throughout the whole story.
10. There isn't no omniscient narrator. I say there is no omniscient narrator because there narrator of the story stays in first person the whole story.
11. No, there is no viewpoint character. I say this because throughout the story the narrator stays in the first person viewpoint. For example: "but afterwards I learned that Ogilvy, Stent, and Henderson were with others in this attempt at communication". and this was later on in the story.
12. No, the view doesn't change in this story. For example: "I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. All I felt was that it was something very strange" and this is further down in the

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