We have to read the short-story so that we should not miss one single detail (which, actually, is impossible). ... We may wonder why this story is so important to him and how closely he was connected to the events. ... We no longer trust both narrators. The governess becomes unworthy of our trust by the way she describes the setting in the first chapter. ... We understand the whole story, as a...
By the third chapter it turns out that Achilles will kill Poke. ... Even though he still remembered being on the edge of dying when he first went up to Poke and put his life in her hands." ... "We"re not each other's enemies. ... We"re supposed to be allies. We should be learning from each other, sharing information and ideas." ...
By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, we can assume that through the ambiguous nature of the narrative form, we are exposed to the authors unease with, and conflicting ideas towards the threat of modernity, not just aesthetically, but within the context of how such dramatic cultural and social u...
