After annotating the passage of The Road with the sole focus upon Point of View, you should have a collection of findings/questions/patterns emerge. From your annotations, you are going pick one aspect of point of view that you feel has been revealed.. .and/or you feel has legs to be developed.
I think the questions... What details does the narrator tell us? What order are things presented to us"
are pretty important in the passage we worked with in class. I examined the text carefully looking at details we have/what was left out/what order is it presented.
With some of my findings... I ask myself... So? What are the implications/ What is the significance of these findings? What do they do to the text? The characters? The meaning? Why does the author do this?
My conclusion...
For an example: The omniscient narrator in The Road often emphasizes the father's coping with a world lost by including mundane details of a previous society juxtaposed with his new reality.
After you have used the questions on point of view to bring new points of interest to the surface, and you have come up with the implications/significance of this usage (see example), you will simply list examples from The Road under your argument.
So I would present...
"In the livingroom the bones of a small animal dismembered and placed in a pile. Possibly a cat. A glass tumbler by the door". . .
"Wearing masks and goggles, sitting in their rags by the side of the road like ruined aviators . . . He sat.. . and read old newspapers while the boy slept"
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