Puppy By George Saunders Essay

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When I began editing this story, “Puppy”, by George Saunders, I did not have a particular goal in mind. I just wanted to see what would happen when I changed the piece from third person limited omniscient, with a free indirect style, to third person objective. I tried to convey as much of the information that was originally conveyed without adding too many things that didn’t happen in the original; it was very challenging to do effectively. Honestly, for me, it was hard just to change the point of view. I found that being unable to convey the characters’ thoughts and feelings made the story harder to understand and interpret with depth. Between third person objective and the original point of view, the original point of view was better. I was able to change the point of view while relaying some of the story’s original information, but not all of it. An example of what I mean would be when I changed the lines from, “Out in the Lexus, Abbie began to cry softly, saying, "Really, that was the perfect pup for me." And it was a nice pup, but Marie was not going to contribute to a situation like this in even the smallest way.” to, “Out in the Lexus, Abbie began to cry softly, saying, "Really, that was the perfect pup for me." “Yes, it was a nice pup, but we won’t be taking it,” Marie responded.” The first excerpt, from the original version, gives the following information: Marie and …show more content…

The story would have been a lot shorter without these thoughts and had a lot less meaning. It would have been shallow. It was really hard to “show” the thoughts and feelings of the characters through actions. Even if the thoughts and feelings of the characters could be shown through actions, it would have made the characters more distant from the reader. Because of all these things, third person limited omniscient, with a free indirect style, was the most effective way to write

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