Posted by Maurice Zamarripa on June 06, 1999 at 14:39:36:
In Reply to: Writing Prompt #18 posted by Syed Nasir on June 05, 1999 at 21:13:06:
: In "Little Sawtooth," Huddle frames Michelle's story by telling the story within another. The narrator starts off, in first person, about his own story and then goes into Michelle's story. The story is then expressed in the third person as the narrator describes Michelle's story. This short story is unique than the other stories as a result of great detail. The author used vision (perception) as a tool to tell his story; the reader can visualize the events and actions vividly. Huddle uses vision to keep the author interested and also used flashback to tell Michelle's story.
the sense of vision, I noticed, is essential for the unique composition of the story.
Things like the glasses, and how they look into the past, and when Michelle crawls in the dirt at night to find the edge of the cliff, and how the author describes the writer at the beginning of the story, being watched by those invisable sentinals in the middle of the night.