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The Narration In The Swimmer By S. J. Butler

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The swimmer Fear is a common emotion which we all have experienced before, but every person responds to the emotion differently, it´s not unusual that people will be scared the first time they experience fear, it something that usual will test the person identity or be a part of some personal development . The short story The Swimmer by S.J Butler deals with some of these themes. The story’s narrator is a Third person omniscient narrator, which means that the narrator is able to read everyone’s thoughts. The narrator focuses on the protagonist. The setting in the story takes place in a hot summer with no cooling wind. “Three weeks of windless sun”. ”Nothing moves except the water”. The protagonist gets introduced simultaneously with the water which indicates that the protagonist and the water is both connected to each together or are of some kind have significance to the story. This gets illustrated by the following quote “She sits at her desk in the back room gazing out at the river…” We also get the knowledge that the protagonist is a woman. The protagonist is very fascinated by the water for some reason even though she is very obsessed by the water she seems to distance herself from the water at the same time. It´s pretty easy to make the assumption that she is afraid of the water. “Every day she looks out at the river and longs …show more content…

They were both struggling to become free, and they both couldn’t have done if it wasn’t for each other. Our main character couldn´t have overcome her fears for the water if the swan had not been there to take her attention to something different then the water. And the swan wouldn’t have been able to become free if it wasn’t for at protagonist and they both and quite similar endings. “She moves aside and lets the current take the bird. It drifts slowly down the straight, picked out against the dark water by the moonlight. As it rounds the bend she lets the current take her

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