“My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years." -pg. 6
I immediately took to this book more than the other. Firstly because I noticed the narrator is a character in the story. This makes it a lot more personal and emotion-filled. The first-person narration maks the story seem more real and coming from a reliable source. However it also means that what she's saying is probably a bit biased.
The diction is also less confusing: whereas Brave New World was talking about injecting with chemicals and all these procedures, this novel started with simple word choice. I also liked the start of this novel because it laid the setting for the whole novel, whereas parts in the other were brought different aspects, like characters and setting, at different periods of time. It was also kind of odd that the character here spent time talking about all the things she did in the past; normally, the point of the story is to go forward, but she's just talking about what's already happened. One benefit of this, though, is that she tells the events how she saw them, but now she also has insight on what really happened and how she learned from her experiences-that's something that everyone can relate to.
I immediately took to this book more than the other. Firstly because I noticed the narrator is a character in the story. This makes it a lot more personal and emotion-filled. The first-person narration maks the story seem more real and coming from a reliable source. However it also means that what she's saying is probably a bit biased.
The diction is also less confusing: whereas Brave New World was talking about injecting with chemicals and all these procedures, this novel started with simple word choice. I also liked the start of this novel because it laid the setting for the whole novel, whereas parts in the other were brought different aspects, like characters and setting, at different periods of time. It was also kind of odd that the character here spent time talking about all the things she did in the past; normally, the point of the story is to go forward, but she's just talking about what's already happened. One benefit of this, though, is that she tells the events how she saw them, but now she also has insight on what really happened and how she learned from her experiences-that's something that everyone can relate to.
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