First person narration
There can be few students who don't know what the term 'first person narration' means, and recognise it in action the first time the pronoun 'I' appears. However, what does first person narration actually do ? That pronoun 'I' defines a relationship between the reader and the story, and sets in motion a whole range of assumptions and responses – all of which involve accepting an illusion, a fiction, something that we...