... is the author of the text and not a fictional character. The incidents that she describes have actually happened to her in the past and were not made up. In the autobiography "an angel at my table" Janet Frame is the narrator as well as being the author of the text. If the story is being told from a third person' perspective, the persona again depends on the single character through whose eyes we witness the story. The author may go inside the character's mind and tell us how that character thinks and feels, or may describe outside events the way the character would do. In third-person objective, we have no real entry to the character's thoughts or feelings. The author simply describes with little emotion what the characters say and do. In an autobiography this is not the case. In "an angel at my table" there is a lot of ...

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