By 5 PM Monday, September 11, post to the relevant Forum on CourseInfo a proposed set of minimum conditions for triggering the narrative impulse. To construct a story is to be a narrator. An audience may not perceive the story as being narrated, and thus make a mistake. The medium of film is especially well-suited to force people to make this mistake. First person narration is especially well-suited to concealing the authorial voice.
Narrators can be unreliable in ways difficult for themselves and their audiences to appreciate.
All of this creates serious epistemological problems. This story cannot be told in a movie. Moreover, the book is not about a stoic. By class time post to CourseInfo some evidence for or against the thesis that there is no impersonal narration. Write on this theme even if you think it is not a nasty assignment.