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Unit 3: Literature and identity
Quick questions on Perspectives and representations in QCE Literature Unit 3
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What is three perspectives, held apart?Show answer
Character perspective. The position of a figure inside the text. A character sees only what their situation allows. A narrator who is also a character is limited by their own stake in events; their account of another person's identity is shaped by what they need that person to be. Reading character perspective means reading for the limits of the view, not just the content of it.
What is character perspective?Show answer
The position of a figure inside the text. A character sees only what their situation allows. A narrator who is also a character is limited by their own stake in events; their account of another person's identity is shaped by what they need that person to be.
What is writer perspective?Show answer
The position of the maker who arranged the whole. The writer can see around a character because the writer built the character. The gap between what a character understands and what the writer lets the reader see is one of literature's most powerful tools.
What is reader perspective?Show answer
The position from which the text is received. Readers bring their own cultural assumptions, and those assumptions shape which representation of identity feels natural and which feels strange. The same text read from two reader perspectives produces two different readings, which is why the reader perspective is part of how meaning is made, not an afterthought.
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