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How important is the narrative voice to the themes and structure of the novel 'Wise Children'? Angela Carter's 'Wise Children' is the fictional autobiography of Dora Chance, looking at both past experiences and, from the point of view of the author, real time events. It is written in the first person, from the point of view of Dora Chance, written in such a way as to convey the thoughts and feelings of the narrator without a direct notification of such thoughts and feelings. This means that for Angela Carter to put across Dora's feelings and opinions of the events of the novel many other literary techniques must be involved. The narrator herself uses many colloquialisms and phrases, sometimes turning them into puns or twisting them to a different outcome, for example 'and what does the poor robin do then? Bugger the robin!' this addresses the narrator's point of view on...

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