Beagle's fiction often experiments with a great variety of narrative voices. The first-person narrator in Giant Bones is an exasperated father who is trying to get his son to sleep in the absence of his mother, who is away nursing a sick relative. The father provides what is called a "frame narrative," a story surrounding the main story. In the case of Giant Bones, the frame provides the context for Selsim's adventure, explaining that Selsim is the boy's great-great-great grandfather. Frame narratives very often just provide context for the main story,.....
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