Monday, August 29, 2011

Skeleton

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje is a novel that describes the last year of sanity of Buddy Bolden, the famous jazz player. Ondaajte has built this novel in a particular stucture in order to fully percieve the events ocurred through the perspective of many characters.
Ondaajte frequently switches the narrator, moving from an omiscient narrator to first person, and from Buddy Bolden's perspective to other characters like Webb the cop. The structure of this novel can be seen in this diagram, centering all points of view around the main event, the day Buddy Bolden went crazy.

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