Word: first-person
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...trademark glance of intrigue that seems to suggest she’s always one step ahead of your conversation. It quickly became apparent to FM that Veronique does indeed think on a more cerebral level: her first story, where she chowed down on Jell-O in a Magic of Numbers section, was possibly the most brilliantly executed first-person narrative piece in recent magazine memory. Plenty of insightful profiles and compelling cover stories have joined the Hyland ouevre since then, but a couple of things about Veronique will thankfully always remain the same...
...grading also rewarded the blandest essays. I gave a 5 to a kid who had written a funny, subtle first-person account of a friend who had slacked off his studies and begun dressing "like a pimp" in order to impress the cool kids. The other graders gave the essay 2s and 3s; there was one 4. (Our scores didn't count for anything. On a real test, the raw 1 to 6 score will be combined with the raw score from the multiple-choice grammar segment and translated into an overall writing score on the traditional...
...preferential option for the poor,” for equity in health care and for the eradication of HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis, he also tells of his own thoughts on Farmer—both personally and professionally. While all but one of Kidder’s previous books have been written in the third person, Mountains Beyond Mountains has lengthy first-person narrative portions, and Kidder is a vocal character throughout...
...There’s a pervasive cynicism out there that I knew I’d be fighting against,” Kidder says. “I knew you needed a first-person narrator to tell you this is true…it’s this idea of having an everyman who’s much less virtuous than Farmer to bear witness to the fact that this guy’s real…It’s not enough to just say, oh, well it happened and therefore I can just set it down...
...first-person aspect of Mountains Beyond Mountains is more than an insurance policy on the book’s credibility. The work also contains passages exploring the enthusiasm and ambivalence Kidder felt as he watched and heard Farmer outlining the world’s inequities in the starkest and most accusatory of terms...