First-person Narrative and Story
Jackson Crain
Professor Coney
English 1123-B Period
28 April 2013
“Luck” Mark Twain's short story "Luck" is written in third person point of view making it seem like your there at graduation day with Scoresby, and the Reverend. This story is very entertaining because it tells the story about a Reverend a former instructor and soldiers in the military who describe a man that he used to be friends, with as an absolute fool. According to the Reverend, his old friend, Scoresby, is only successful because he is lucky. The Reverend in the story is described as an a very strict and was intelligent when it came to the judgement of men. while Scoresby is described as a sweet, fool. The first person narrator that Twain choose to tell the majority of the story is ostensibly a unnamed clergyman, a former British army instructor. The second narrator seems to be a unreliable one, because he says that scoresbys success come strictly from luck. The third person narrator is Twain, he is briefly the narrator of this story, given that he convinces the reader’s perspective by declaring this story to be a true one, and not a made up sketch. In this story, readers learn and comprehend about the life of Scoresby, a military hero, through the description of a clergyman who was once an instructor in a military academy. This was actually a story within another story. In fact, an anonymous narrator retells the story he once heard from the missionary. This story is told in third person point of view, the narrator participates in the action of the story, but it is biased on a limited view. Therefore, the reader should question the integrity of the story. From this story the reader will learn that Scoresby is not the brightest person. Being the nice man that he was, the clergyman helped him cheat to help him pass his exams. However, the clergyman was almost positive that a student so ignorant could not ever pass any exam, not even when he was favored. In the after mat on the
Professor Coney
English 1123-B Period
28 April 2013
“Luck” Mark Twain's short story "Luck" is written in third person point of view making it seem like your there at graduation day with Scoresby, and the Reverend. This story is very entertaining because it tells the story about a Reverend a former instructor and soldiers in the military who describe a man that he used to be friends, with as an absolute fool. According to the Reverend, his old friend, Scoresby, is only successful because he is lucky. The Reverend in the story is described as an a very strict and was intelligent when it came to the judgement of men. while Scoresby is described as a sweet, fool. The first person narrator that Twain choose to tell the majority of the story is ostensibly a unnamed clergyman, a former British army instructor. The second narrator seems to be a unreliable one, because he says that scoresbys success come strictly from luck. The third person narrator is Twain, he is briefly the narrator of this story, given that he convinces the reader’s perspective by declaring this story to be a true one, and not a made up sketch. In this story, readers learn and comprehend about the life of Scoresby, a military hero, through the description of a clergyman who was once an instructor in a military academy. This was actually a story within another story. In fact, an anonymous narrator retells the story he once heard from the missionary. This story is told in third person point of view, the narrator participates in the action of the story, but it is biased on a limited view. Therefore, the reader should question the integrity of the story. From this story the reader will learn that Scoresby is not the brightest person. Being the nice man that he was, the clergyman helped him cheat to help him pass his exams. However, the clergyman was almost positive that a student so ignorant could not ever pass any exam, not even when he was favored. In the after mat on the