Posted by Brianna Lumsden on June 04, 1999 at 15:19:00:
In Reply to: writing prompt #18 posted by chris miller on June 04, 1999 at 00:17:31:
Chris makes a good point by saying that the story is written first in third person, then it changes into third person. This story is almost a story within a story. As Chris said it is a good example of flashback story. The narrator is telling a story that he heard from Michelle. As Chris mentioned we learn through the narrator that Michelle is a quiet catholic girl who is some what of a loner. I too felt, as Chris did, that Huddle did a good job by having the narrator give us a lot of detail about Michelle and the teacher on the mountain and when the teacher fell and Michelle could not find him. I thought this story was interesting because it was not just a narrator telling us a story, but he was having a memory or a flashback of someone else's memory. I felt that if Huddle did not write the story in this fashion, it would have turned out differently and would not have been as mysterious. If Michelle for example was the narrator of the story, then she maybe would of had to explain what happened to her teacher's family, or what happened during the investigation.