The Lost Sister: An Elegy By Joyce Carol Oates

Many people believe that the story should have one narrator, which will provide readers with only one perspective on the text. However, actually it is a wrong point of view. Many novels and short stories have more than one retheror. The famous author Sue William Silverman writes on this topic in her article, which describes different diverse forms of nonfiction, saying that every memoir should have “at least two "voices" to tell the story, to explore the depth of events” (4). Two voice perspective helps the author to show every aspect of the story with more emotion and detail. One can see a great example of it in Joyce Carol Oates’s story:” The Lost Sister: An Elegy”, the memoir, which describes the author’s experience of living with an autistic

Lynn was diagnosed as an autistic in childhood and, later, when she was fifteen, Lynn was sent to the mental facility due to the failure of her family and doctors, which didn’t study autism well enough during those years, to treat her. The sisters have never seen each other since when (Oates, 13). After the long time had passed from that moment, Oates wrote her story as an elegy for the sister, she had lost due to the mental health illness, to say her farewell. “The Lost Sister: An Elegy” was published in the famous literature magazine Narrative, the magazine, which “publishes essays on narrative theory, essays on narrative and its relations to other modes of discourse, and essays of practical criticism based in diverse theoretical modes. The editors especially welcome submissions combining theoretical investigation and practical criticism.” (“Narrative”). So the Oates’s audience mostly includes academic professors, scientists and scholars, which are eager to challenge their beliefs and views about the world and the everyday life aspects of