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Analyzing Point of View and Theme in "Voices"

The document contains a student's name and ID number, followed by two questions about identifying the point of view and determining the theme of a story. The response provides an analysis of the point of view of the story as first person protagonist, where the main character relates events that occurred to them using "I". It then analyzes the theme of the story as being about the differences between social classes and tensions between men and women, as well as marking the beginning of the main character's emergence from childhood innocence into understanding the sexual world.

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Analyzing Point of View and Theme in "Voices"

The document contains a student's name and ID number, followed by two questions about identifying the point of view and determining the theme of a story. The response provides an analysis of the point of view of the story as first person protagonist, where the main character relates events that occurred to them using "I". It then analyzes the theme of the story as being about the differences between social classes and tensions between men and women, as well as marking the beginning of the main character's emergence from childhood innocence into understanding the sexual world.

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Name : Henny Sulistyawati

Nim : 153221006

Questions :

1. Point of view

explain how you identify the point of view of the story.

2. Theme
Why do you determine that theme?

POINT OF VIEW

First person protagonist

In this point of view a character relates events that accurred to them, the “ I” is the main
character, telling her or his own story.

“I don’t mean that she spent all her time wishing that things weren’t as they were. Like any
other woman with washtubs to haul into the kitchen and no running water and a need to spend
most of the summer preparing food to be eaten in the winter, she was kept busy. She couldn’t
even devote as much time as she otherwise would have done in being disappointed with me,
wondering why I was not bringing the right kind of friends, or any friends at all, home from
the town school. Or why I was shying away from Sunday School recitations, something I used
to make a grab at. And why I came home with the ringlets torn out of my hair a desecration I
had managed even before I got to school, because nobody else wore their hair the way she
fixed mine. Or indeed why I had learned to blank out even the prodigious memory I once had
for reciting poetry, refusing to use it ever again for showing off.

But I am not always full of sulks and disputes. Not yet. Here I am when about ten years old, all
eager to dress up and accompany my mother to a dance.”

From this, the character “ I” is the main character and told about her experience and her mother
to this story.
THEME

The theme of the story “voices” is the differences between classes, tensions between men and
woman. In changes and ceremonies, in lives of girls and woman, the judgement fly, and their
sharp edges are observed to be hurtful and long lives.

Her mother was never quite happy with her position in society and did her best to appear higher.

“she said thing s like “readily” and “indeed so”. She sounded as if she had grown up
in some strange family who always talked that way. And she hadn’t. They didn’t. Out on their
farms, my aunts and uncles talked the way everybody else did. And they didn’t like my mother
very much, either. “

It also about the very beginning of Allice’s emergence from the innocence of childhood of the
sexual world.

Here at ten years old, she accompanies her mother to a dance community. There she sees as
prostitute. She doesn’t know what a prostitute is yet, but she sense scandal from the way people,
in particular her mother, respond to the prostitute’s presence.

“ their hands blessed my own skinny thighs and their voices assure me that I, too, was
worthy of love”

“ and while they still inhabited my not yet quite erotic fantasies they were gone. Some, many,
gone for good. “

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