One of the Variations of Distance in "In Seach of the America"

In the story "In Search of the America, we can consider the narrator to be the first person who moved through the land of America to find out how sharecroppers live. Reader would be able to share the point of his view about the scenes through his narration. However, I was really confused to figure out that what kind of messages I should have obtained from each scenes because he was sometimes just the vehicle to let us know the situation of the scenes and appearance of people. Even though he mentioned about the scene of the camp and lumbering, he finally brought up the scene with people who the author felt scary as if he wanted to tell us the ideas in terms of prejudice and discrimination. After that, I was confused what I should find from the story. Probably, people would be able to find a distance into his narration like as Jane Austen's one which are mentioned in the article "Type of Narration" by Wayne C. Booth (p. 155-157).


In the paragraph 4 of the category "Variation of Distance" (p. 157), Booth refered that "The implied author may be more or less distant from the reader" and, "Jane Austen does not have to convince us that pride and prejudice are undesireble." I learned Jane Austen was one of the authors who took over her experience from her life to the stories. When the author write the fact such as experiences, they sometimes do not need to persuade the readers and send a message to them because that whether the reader obtains any messages and has any impression or not is depending them. In other words, it may be the appeal that the passage does not be prepossessed with the matters like as the ineviable lessons which people already understood.