Question

In at least 100 words, describe point of view in Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth, and how this affects the narrative.

Answer 1

In Gandhi's autobiographical short story called "The Story of My Experiments with Truth," he tells of his own child marriage through the first-person point of view. In doing so, Gandhi is able to put the reader in the shoes of his childhood self, allowing them to feel how he felt--the excitement, the wonder, and the disgust--as well as giving an understanding of the other people in his writing. If Gandhi had written the story in third-person, it would have felt out of place, like the reader were simply watching the events of the story happen. In first-person, however, the reader has a clear understanding of what it was like to have a marriage ceremony as a young, naive, and not yet fully developed child

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Answer 2

Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth puts us in the first person. This allows us to really understand the characters and feel like we are living within the story. If it was in third person we may have felt as if we were just watching the story unfold. Since it is in first person it allows us the opportunity to feel as if we really are a part of the story.