Topic > Analysis of "Lusus Naturae" by Margaret Atwood - 1496

In “Sonny's Blues”, author James Baldwin used the first person as narration. Its first-person narrator was a main character in the story who shared dialogue very consistently throughout the entire story with other characters. The narrator is "Sonny's Blues" which includes his own thoughts and actions. Also in “Lusus Naturae” Margaret Atwood uses the first person. Although Atwood and Baldwin used the narrator as the main character of the story, the narrator of “Lusus Naturae” was different from the narrator of “Sonny's Blues.” The narrator of “Lusus Naturae” used minimal dialogue with the other characters. Atwood's narrator never received a response from another character, and the narrator's motivations were explained through the description of his actions in the story. "Lusus Naturae" would be easier for a reader to understand based on how the author used the narrator's point of view and how he used the dialogue between the narrator and the other characters in the story.