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Who Is The Story Teller In The Crucible

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Who is telling the story?
The book combines the consciousness of all characters to form a complete story. It is difficult to determine a single story teller since there are multiple story tellers present in the book. I think every character is story teller of the book. Each one of character’s consciousness is functional unit to promote smooth story flow from character to character. Their consciousness fragmented by others’ consciousness fragments. Each character’s consciousness is chopped into small pieces and displayed throughout the story with careful arrangement. One consciousness supplements with another consciousness to view the story from all angle of the views and provide us a full picture of the story.
Darl is the main story teller …show more content…

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