A Separate Peace: A Narrative Analysis

A viewer’s experience and understanding of a story can be changed by such of In the novel, A Separate Peace you get a clear idea of who is telling the story. Gene functions as your interpreter of the story--he offers a narrative that connects a reader with the book. The use of a narrator in the book helps to draw in a reader and generates sympathy, which makes the story more meaningful. In the movie, the director chose not to use this technique. Instead of using a narrator, the director chose to create a wall between the viewer and the story, which served a different purpose. Rather than pull a reader in to experience the story directly, the director chose to create some distance, which allowed the viewers to keep an open mind about all