The Narrator, a Character in the Lesson

Abe: "I've been working on him for a while. Hes, he's a character that has shown up in other stories" Abe was inspired by his interest in linguistics and how people shift between vernacular and more standard varieties of English. He also wanted to have an omniscient narrator who would speak in the saint tomian dialect. A lot of personal things went into cal - i think he's like one character that's in some ways closest to me,.