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...apart from the subject and even from the writer. To Gornick this persona is a necessary aspect of personal nonfiction. In fiction and poetry, characters provide “surrogates” to whom the writer can ascribe the unacceptable yearnings or embarrassing character flaws they seek to express, while in nonfiction the narrator must reveal these flaws within herself. The flaws cannot be once removed as they are in poetry and fiction...
...important observation. By creating a narrator separate from herself, the writer is able to transform the uniquely personal into something that can be felt and understood by others. The narrator becomes the link between writer and reader, allowing the latter to feel the truths that the writer tries to express through the story, without the self-righteous whining or high-mindedness of the writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish...
...just the first 10 pages Gornick is able to lucidly illustrate the importance of the complex relationship between subject and narrator and lay the groundwork to delve into how to understand and express this relationship. But in some ways Gornick misses this golden opportunity. As a premier essayist with a large body of work to her name, Gornick has a vast supply of personal essays which she could draw upon to explain how she searches for this narrative persona in her own life. Who better to explain where she triumphed and where she fell short than the writer herself...
...military. America can hardly be called a democracy if there is no democratic oversight over the use of force in our name. If the public disagrees with a president’s use of cruise missiles or Special Forces to take on a military threat, it can express that view at the next election; no such accountability is possible if actions are concealed...
...with the taste of blood and ashes still strong, Harvard’s usual mix of one-world pacifism and knee-jerk anti-American sentiment seems muted. But already the whispers have begun, in dining halls and chat groups and classrooms, wherever our jaded, over-privileged meritocrats can quietly express their disdain for the simple, easily manipulated sentiments of the common man. If you listen closely, you can hear them—all those flags make me uncomfortable ... this is just an excuse for the Republicans to build up the military ... it’s tragedy, sure...