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The Ponder Heart Study Guide

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by Eudora Welty
About 3 pages (1,024 words)
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Techniques

Narrative point of view is the most important technical aspect of the novel.

Edna Earle is the teller, and an unidentified guest at the Beulah Hotel — Edna Earle is the proprietor — is the listener. Her listener learns a great deal about the Ponder family, such unforgettable facts as that Edna Earle's grandmother was the "second-to-longest living Sunday School teacher" ever to serve in her congregation, and that Edna Earle would rather sit down and read a good set of directions than any piece of fiction someone might.....

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The Ponder Heart from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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