{"id":65,"date":"2021-03-12T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372aidan\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-03-12T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:57:10","slug":"assignment-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372aidan\/2021\/03\/12\/assignment-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 3:1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her article, \u201cGreen Grass, Running Water<\/i>: Theorizing the World of the Novel,\u201d Blanca Chester observes that \u201cthe conversation that King sets up between oral creation story, biblical story, literary story, and historical story resembles the dialogues that Robinson sets up in his storytelling performances (47). She writes:<\/p>\n

Robinson\u2019s literary influence on King was, as King himself says, \u201cinspirational.\u201d When one reads King\u2019s earlier novel, Medicine River, and <\/i>compares it with Green Grass, Running Water, <\/i>Robinson\u2019s impact is obvious. Changes in the style of the dialogue, including the way King\u2019s narrator seems to address readers and characters directly (using the first person), in the way traditional characters and stories from Native cultures (particularly Coyote) are adapted, and especially in the way that each of the distinct narrative strands in the novel contains and interconnects with every other, reflect Robinson\u2019s storied impact. (46)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For this blog assignment I would like you to make some comparisons between Harry Robson\u2019s writing style in \u201cCoyote Makes a Deal with the King Of England\u201d and King\u2019s style in Green Grass, Running Water.<\/i> What similarities can you find between the two story-telling voices? Coyote and God are present in both texts, how do they compare in character and voice across the stories?<\/p>\n

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Edward Norton in Fight Club. A film with a very interesting take on the role of the narrator.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As the question suggests, there are clear similarities to be made between the two authors and their respective writing styles. Although having characters shared between the two readings, Chester recognizes that the impression that Robinson has on Thomas King is illuminated via the relationship between the different stories that are placed in the book.\u00a0On top of this,\u00a0the two authors employ different roles for the narrators in their stories, providing very interesting yet divergent qualities of two stories sharing a couple of the same\u00a0characters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A main difference in \u201cCoyote Makes a Deal With the King of England\u201d <\/i>by Robinson and the story by King, is the role in which both the narrator, and Coyote embody. For example, in the story by King, Coyote, although a critical member of cast, has a seemingly transparent element to him, residing in the background at points. Whereas in Robinson<\/a>\u2019s writing, Coyote is a very notable character, where the communication between the King and himself occupies a large part of the story. Now, when it comes to the narrators, there is a fundamental difference between the two. King provides the reader with a narrator, a hand-hold throughout the telling of the story. Robinson takes the adverse approach, his story lacks a narrator. He places us in the position of being our own narrator, a distinctive quality to favour in being a story made for oral story telling. The style of the stories share many similarities, but differ in what they ask of us in their reading. One employing us to take on the role of the narrator, and the other providing us with one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This got me thinking about the different types of narrator that can be present in stories. There isn\u2019t a simple binary around the presence of a narrator versus a lack of a narrator; there can be a couple different kinds. Something that I hadn\u2019t thought about is the notion of the \u201cunreliable<\/a>\u201d narrator. Someone that isn\u2019t \u201ccredible, or even intentionally deceptive\u201d (Miller-Wilson.)\u00a0Some argue, “choosing how you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself” (Kittelstad.) \u00a0In\u00a0conclusion, the two stories exhibit a certain harmony in regards to both Coyote and God, but when it comes to the story-telling voices utilized there were some fundamental singularities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/p>\n

King, Thomas. Green Grass Running Water<\/i>. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1993. Print.<\/p>\n

Chester, Blanca. \u201cGreen Grass, Running Water: Theorizing the World of the Novel.\u201d Canadian Literature<\/i> 161-162. (1999).Web. April 04\/2013.<\/p>\n

Robinson, Harry. Living by Stories: a Journey of Landscape and Memory.<\/i> Ed. Wendy Wickwire. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. Print.<\/p>\n

Miller-Wilson, K. (n.d.). 12 classic unreliable Narrator Examples. Retrieved from https:\/\/examples.yourdictionary.com\/12-classic-unreliable-narrator-examples.html<\/p>\n

Kittelstad, K. (n.d.). Examples of NARRATION: 3 main types in literature. Retrieved from https:\/\/examples.yourdictionary.com\/examples-of-narration.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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