AP Literature and Composition January 13, 2009 Ms. Cares

Agenda: 1.“Strange Fruit” Discussion and Interpretation: Examining the politics of the Harlem Renaissance. 2.Narrative Techniques: Review the different types of narration. 3.Go Tell It on the Mountain: 1.Questions and discussion of the novel so far. 2.Small group work on the narrative affect of the novel.

Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Listen to the song. What do you notice about the music (i.e. the tone, the inflection, the instruments)? Examine the lyrics. Read them like a poem: identify the dramatic situation, notable diction and syntax, overall meaning. Draw conclusions. How might we put “Strange Fruit” in conversation with the other Harlem Renaissance texts that we have read so far?

Narrative Types: Take Notes The narrator is the entity that tells the story to the audience. Examining the narrator can help to identify tone. It is also important to keep in mind that, in fiction, the narrator or speaker is different than the writer.

First-Person Narrative - Narrative mode in which a story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him- or herself using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). -Provides the thoughts, feelings, motivations of singular characters.

Second-Person Narrative The protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you". “You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy” Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City (August 12, 1984).

Third-Person Narrator The third-person subjective is when the narrator is not an involved character in the story and is therefore able to convey what thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc. are occurring in the minds of one or more characters. Provides an “over the shoulder” perspective.

Third-Person Narrator The third-person objective perspective tells a story without detailing any characters' thoughts, opinions, or feelings, but instead gives an objective point of view. This point of view can be described as "a fly on the wall" or "the lens of a camera" that can only record the observable actions, but cannot relay what thoughts are going through the minds of the characters.

Third-Person Narrator Historically, the third-person omniscient perspective has been the most common. Perspective of a storyteller who plays no part in the story but knows all the facts, including the characters' thoughts. Injects the narrator's own perspective and reputation into the story, creating a greater sense of objectivity for the plot. The third-person omniscient narrator is usually the most reliable narrator; however, the omniscient narrator may offer judgments and express opinions on the behavior of the characters.