How does the boy’s voice differ from the mother’s, besides the obvious differences of their age and life experience? (200-250 words)

: I’m working on a literature project and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

First 2 Questions should be around 200-250 words. Q3 should be 2-3 pages.

Lost children archive: https://books.feedvu.com/nonscrolablepdf/lost-chil…

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Question 1 & 2 are for Lost Children Archive, pages 185-260.

Q1. How does the boy’s voice differ from the mother’s, besides the obvious differences of their age and life experience? (200-250 words)

Q2. Critically reply to your peer’s response to Question 1, express your thoughts, add to the answer and give reasons as to why you disagree or agree. (200-250 words)

” I appreciate the narrator switch from the mother to the ten-year-old son in the novel Lost Children Archive. It gives a twist to the story, and it allows readers to understand and imagine the story from a different perspective. The boy’s voice differs from the mothers in ways beyond their age difference and life experience. The boy’s voice is livelier. He illustrates the world through a brighter light, one with innocence, and he demonstrates a “get it done” mentality. It was very brave of the boy to set out on such a serious, and risky journey. And especially courageous to bring his five-year-old sister with him. The boy was eager to find the missing girls. This topic became very important to him. The mother’s voice often reflects uncertainty, and uneasiness; she was breaking down. Her voice is more that of a wanderer, and she has been experiencing emotional hardship. The boy on the other hand, stayed fixed on the present. He is engaged, and perhaps in the long-run, more optimistic. The boy voiced his devotion to the lost children mission. He did this by learning all that he could; by listening to his parents’ stories, reading books, listening to the news and other audio recordings in the car, and of course, by going out and conducting this mission as a runaway. He set out for this journey, and he reached his goal. The boy and girl may have really helped the lost children by trading away their belongings, particularly the compass, map, and empty notebook. All that the mother and father have taught their children turned out to lead a great story.”

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Q3. In Lost Children Archive, Luiselli assembles her narrative through the use of documents (or at least wants us readers to feel like that is how she is assembling her narrative, box by box.) In fact, at the end of the book, she includes what appear to be the Polaroids that the boy has taken throughout the novel. Luiselli has never definitively said one way or the other whether these are photographs of her real family–we can speculate, but that’s about it. Where did these pictures actually come from? How many of the things that happened in the novel were true? Is the story behind the real pictures the same as what happens in the novel or are the pictures just inspirations?

For this assignment, you’re going to construct your own brief work of “documentary fiction.” Select a photograph (from your phone, your computer, your wall) and write a brief story about the image. It doesn’t have to be entirely true. It doesn’t have to be entirely imagined. Ideally, it’s somewhere between the two, exploring the same fiction/nonfiction dichotomy as Luiselli’s novel. Blur lines, write things the way they should have happened, invent fictional counterparts for you and your loved ones. Your assignment should be 2-3 pages.