Lamentations Of The Father Analysis

3. The audience for the essay, “Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father” from the Atlantic by Ian Frazier is for parents. The audience is portrayed throughout the essay through the tone of the narrator. The narrator uses a superior and authoritative tone as he is speaking, much like a parent. Because the narrator is describing the house rules, responsibilities and directly speaking to “you,” it is indicated that when he says “you” he is referring to the children of the household. By doing that, he implies that parents should be using these rules for their own children. The title of the essay also reveals that a parent’s point of view is used to illustrate his viewpoint of a parent’s discipline because

In the first paragraph of the first chapter in the novel, Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen, the speaker is speaking in third-person. The narrator is someone who is able to get in the mind of the characters and knows what is going on at any point in time. This is illustrated in the first paragraph because the narrator talks about Mazie Holbrook, and uses words such as “she” and “her” to describe what is going on.
2. In the passage concerning Andy Kvaternick, it is told from a third-person narrator. The narrator is speaking to the audience and the readers of the book. This is shown because the narrator is trying to describe what is going on in Kvaternick’s life. Because the narrator knows everything that he has experienced and is going to experience, it is a third-person narrator. The purpose of the passage is to express to Kvaternick what he should expect while working in the mines. The meaning the writer is trying to convey in the passage is that Kvaternick’s life is going to only revolve around mining. This is implied when the narrator says, “The rats shall be your birds, and the rocks plopping in the water your music” (Olsen 7). This denotes that Kvaternick should get comfortable with what he will be doing for the rest of his