There are a variety of different form and narrative structures in the short stories, “Trees Can Speak”, “The Persimmon Tree” and “A Double Because its Snowing.” All of these are modernist stories with a one sided perspective of reality. The stories also tend to have a prescence of the unsaid in their narration, which make the stories very powerful.

We definintely see this idea of Beverley Farmer in the onset of “Trees Can Speak.” The storekeeper says, “This man never speaks.” 1 The movements of the man and the expressions on his face are the only clues the narrator has to understanding him. However, there is something more powerful about a man who does not speak. Its leaves people guessing and not having all the answer laid out in front of them. It allows them to get spiritually closer to the person, like the narrator who is focusing on the mans every movement and facial expression. It is also much more personal and half of the time, the narrator does not even realize the man is not talking. At one point the narrat

Some topics in this essay:
Marjorie Barnard, Ben Okri, Beverley Farmer, Double Snowing”, It’s Snowing”, Lisa Mahon, Literature Essay, throughout story, narrative structure, form narrative, “trees speak”, “a double, Persimmon Tree”, access narrators feelings, speak story, access narrators, narrator saying, short story, story narrator, form narrative structure, “a double snowing”,