They are just like us." Plato, The Republic, Book VII The nice thing is that it is still fairly easy to determine where the punctuation separating who is speaking should be. People rarely speak in formal sentence structure during a conversation and the author is conveying this in his many scenes of dialogue. Conversation flows naturally in chunks just like it does when actually speaking. This excerpt is actually a conversation between two people, but it is lacking conventional literary signposts like quotation marks, periods, and paragraph breaks. One of those difficulties and exhibitions of complexity, for instance, is the lack of traditional structural foundations regarding conversations. Oh, good morning, Senor Cipriano, she said, I've come to keep my promise and bring you your water jug, Thank you so much, but you really shouldn't have bothered, after our conversation in the cemetery yesterday, it struck me that people and things are much the same, they have a certain life span, they last for a while, then, like everything else in the world, they come to a sudden end Isaura Estudiosa/Algor Cipriano What this line does not convey is the rich complexity of sentence structure-not to mention the difficulty-presented to the reader in making his way deeper into the text. Algor is a major character and pottery is going to play a far more important role than it may at first appear. Yes, it is for the most part narrated in the presented tense. NarratorĪ lot of information is conveyed in the opening line of the novel.
The man driving the truck is called Cipriano Algor, he is a potter by profession and is sixty-four years old, although he certainly does not look his age.
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