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    This document discusses the use of multiple narrators in storytelling. It provides examples from works like Louise Erdrich's novels and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying that use different narrators. Indigenous communities also often have stories told by multiple elders, with each narrator making minor changes. The use of multiple narratives offers insight into social identity and culture rather than just being a stylistic choice. Lee Haring analyzes how framing oral narratives with multiple perspectives provides historical and cultural context. She argues stories with multiple narrators should be considered their own genre. Haring uses examples from Arabic folktales in A Thousand and One Nights to show how stories were loosely connected through framing within a larger narrative

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    This document discusses the use of multiple narrators in storytelling. It provides examples from works like Louise Erdrich's novels and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying that use different narrators. Indigenous communities also often have stories told by multiple elders, with each narrator making minor changes. The use of multiple narratives offers insight into social identity and culture rather than just being a stylistic choice. Lee Haring analyzes how framing oral narratives with multiple perspectives provides historical and cultural context. She argues stories with multiple narrators should be considered their own genre. Haring uses examples from Arabic folktales in A Thousand and One Nights to show how stories were loosely connected through framing within a larger narrative

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    Louise Erdrich William Faulkner Stream of Consciousness: As I Lay Dying

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    A writer may choose to let several narrators tell the story from different points of view.

    Then it is up
    to the reader to decide which narrator seems most reliable for each part of the story. It may refer to
    the style of the writer in which he/she expresses the paragraph written. See for instance the works
    of Louise Erdrich. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a prime example of the use of multiple
    narrators. Faulkner employs stream of consciousness to narrate the story from various perspectives.
    In Indigenous American communities, narratives and storytelling are often told by a number of elders
    in the community. In this way, the stories are never static because they are shaped by the
    relationship between narrator and audience. Thus, each individual story may have countless
    variations. Narrators often incorporate minor changes in the story in order to tailor the story to
    different audiences.[17]
    The use of multiple narratives in a story is not simply a stylistic choice, but rather an interpretive one
    that offers insight into the development of a larger social identity and the impact that has on the
    overarching narrative, as explained by Lee Haring. [18] Haring analyzes the use of framing in oral
    narratives, and how the usage of multiple perspectives provides the audience with a greater
    historical and cultural background of the narrative. She also argues that narratives (particularly
    myths and folktales) that implement multiple narrators deserves to be categorized as its own
    narrative genre, rather than simply a narrative device that is used solely to explain phenomena from
    different points of view.
    Haring provides an example from the Arabic folktales of A Thousand and One Nights to illustrate
    how framing was used to loosely connect each story to the next, where each story was enclosed
    within the larger narrative. Additionally, Haring draws comparisons between Thousand and One
    Nights and the oral storytelling observed in parts of rural Ireland, islands of the Southwest Indian
    Ocean, and African cultures such as Madagascar.
    "I'll tell you what I'll do," said the smith. "I'll fix your sword for you tomorrow, if you tell me a story
    while I'm doing it." The speaker was an Irish storyteller in 1935, framing one story in another
    (O'Sullivan 75, 264). The moment recalls the Thousand and One Nights , where the story of "The
    Envier and the Envied" is enclosed in the larger story told by the Second Kalandar (Burton 1 : 113-
    39), and many stories are enclosed in others."[18]

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