Three Perspectives In The Novel 'They Came Like Swallows'

The narrator is unknown and tells the story from a third-person perspective. Additionally, the narrator has a limited perspective because he/she does not know the inner thoughts of all the characters.

Throughout the film, many stories are told by different characters that are involved in the story. There are

* The author gives the story from two different perspectives one from the mother’s perspective, Ruth, and the other from the son’s perspective, James.

If only one perspective was used to tell this story, then this theme would be completely lost, no matter which character you choose, as the novel is full of dramatic irony. Though the characters in the story don 't realize their connections, the readers do. The text reveals that even characters who never come to meet, such as Blaine (an ignorant painter) and Solomon (a grieving New York City judge), can change each other’s lives in significant ways. Without these multiple perspectives, this main theme would be lost, as the readers would have no greater knowledge than that given by a single character.

• What is the setting (time and place)? How does it factor into the interactions of the characters?

The viewpoint of the world that the narrator has, completely alters as certain events take place throughout the story. His outlook on nature transforms into a wholly different standpoint as the story progresses. As his tale begins, the narrator sees himself as a tough guy or "bad character". He believes he is invincible. There is nobody as cool as he is or as dangerous as him and his friends are. With his

of the author and why he or she wrote the novel. In this case, one must delve into the lives of

The changes in point of view reinforce the themes of his novel by providing an insight into the characters mind and that the truth isn’t always true.

The perspectives are biased to a point but by shifting the perspective from character to character in different times. It helps show how everyone is involved in the big conflict of the story, whether they know it or not, whether they wanted to be or not, and whether they care or not. The shifting of perspectives is disorienting but offers more than one way to look at a situation and share different things about the main character as the book progresses. The five perspectives that it switches from are (in order) Holly Sykes, Hugo Lamb/ Marcus Anyder, Ed Brubeck, Crispin Hershey, Marinus, and back to Holly Sykes. As for all the important ideas, they are received during conversations between the characters or the character’s [in first person] inner monologues. Most of the specifics about the main issues also come from the character’s thoughts and conversations with others in the

Chapter 2 -  Who are the characters in this chapter? What settings appear (place and time).

The second character that’s introduced is James. He is the son of Ruth. In the beginning of the story James is stating he was a kindergartener. In the second chapter James stepdad is introduced.

We meet him for the first time in this novel, when he is 22, and a salesman in the local department store. Married to the second best sweetheart of his high school years, he is the father of a preschool son and husband to an alcoholic wife. We are at ground zero watching Rabbit struggle with aging, religion, sexuality (particularly sexuality), nature, and the trade-offs between freedom and attachment, and rebellion and

Between the three main characters, they’re all telling you their past in their own unique ways. Though, the more each of their stories unravel, the more everything perfectly ties together. Like a puzzle, you never know what piece will go where. In the book, you never know how things can

I chose to watch the movie Elizabeth as she has always been of great interest to me. Elizabeth became queen on the heels over her half sister Mary, who is portrayed as not the brightest person to rule a kingdom. During this time women were the inferior sex and were not thought to be bright or of sturdy enough stock to successfully rule a kingdom. The movie portrays Elizabeth as she is coming into herself amidst religious angst, scandal, and her own broken heart.

His point of view is of the oldest male of the children. Physiologically he is blonde haired, blue eyed, and reasonably tall for a 14 year old. He is a strapping young man. Sociologically he is “the man of the family” because his father is often on long trips away on Submarines ships.