Frame story

So it's all but confirmed he's older Diggory at this point.

So I think we're going to see older Diggory as a framing device, probably the beginning and end.

And maybe some narration throughout.

Who knows? That's not the vibe that Hines gave in the interview.

But I mean, I wonder if it's some attempt to incorporate some of Lewis's narration into um that he has yeah in the book um some of lewis's best lines in the magician's nephew are the sort of subtly implied narrator character we can't quite figure out who he is or why he's writing this and such but um but yeah i'm predicting some kind of a framing device

it was actually kind of a rumor early on

yes wasn't it there would be some kind

And then if we click forward here, I'll talk about the wardrobe design in a second, but that door pops open.

I know, I know, you will.

And it's important, though, probably as a starting point that we let folk know that this book is a single narrative, but it is a frame narrative.

And essentially what that is, is a text, if you're not familiar with it, that operates with a beginning narrative.

and an ending that happens after the climax, and then you get the kind of backfill of how you got to that place.

Here we go.

Okay guys, so a starting point here for the three imposters.

This story is a frame narrative.

Now if you're not familiar with what that type of story is, think of a picture frame, right? The outside holds the inside or frames it.

Let's start with the structure of the novel, because this is something many students overlook and examiners reward highly.

Frankenstein uses a frame narrative that means we have a story within a story within a story.

Robert Walton, an Arctic explorer, writes letters to his sister.

In those letters, he records Victor Frankenstein's story.

The answer is The Modern Prometheus.

Question two.

Name the three narrators in the frame narrative.

Pause.

it's the glue that holds it all together.

Well, we were talking earlier, earlier in the podcast chat about how, uh, This album, much like Prowler in the Air, it kind of has a framing device around it with the...

The interludes, yeah.

Yeah, this mysterious figure who's sitting typing away at a computer somewhere near a sonar machine.