Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. In "Hamadi" by Naomi Shihab Nye, what is the effect of the author's choice to use the third-person limited point of view, providing readers with only Susan's perspective? It restricts what the reader knows about the inner thoughts and feelings of other characters. It allows the reader to learn what other characters think of Susan. It allows the reader to share Susan's shock over how the story ends. It prevents the reader from knowing Susan's true inner thoughts and feelings.

Answer 1

It restricts what the reader knows about the inner thoughts and feelings of other characters.

Step-by-step explanation:

The omniscient narrator is the one who tells the story in the third person. Thinking about the concept of omniscience, which means being able to know everything, to know things in their entirety, the omniscient narrator is a category that knows the whole story to be told, he knows the plot in detail. Through this kind of narration, it is possible for the reader to be aware of the thoughts and sensations of all the characters, so we can say that in Naomi Shihab Nye's "Hamadi" the effect of the author's choice on using the dot limited third-person view, restricts what the reader knows about other characters' inner thoughts and feelings.

Answer 2

The answer is alternative one.

The third-person limited point of view is a literary device in which the narrator only knows and describes the views and emotions of one single character. As a consequence, the passage of "Hamadi," by Naomi Shihab Nye restricts what the reader knows about the inner thoughts and feelings of other characters, because it focuses only in Susan.