Being a storyteller is a very challenging yet truly enjoyable activity. Being able to come up with interesting new ways of narrating a story, creating a whole new world for another person surely sounds difficult when considering the quantity of writing and storytelling that has happened in the world’s history. The narrator of the Knight’s Tale does a great job at creating a conversation with the reader who can sometimes be interrupted by the considerations and plain thinking of this individual.
Through the first two parts of the story the narrator makes questions as those seen on the excerpts to the left which guide the story to where he has intended it to go. As I am currently reading
Rayuela for my Pre-AP Spanish Literature course I can’t stop comparing the narrator of
The Canterbury Tales to Cortázar’s narrator who gives the reader glimpses of the story behind his characters as he finishes reading distant chapters and memories. Although I believe these narrator interventions and styles are not necessary to carry out the main ideas of the story they make the Knight’s Tale and other pieces who employ such a personification of the narrator different from the several billions of other stories that deal with the same themes and motivations. We are taught in our early years that it isn’t
what you say but
how you say it, in this case that is probably true.
In the Knight’s Tale we can observe how the narrator works out the course of his story by guiding the reader into connecting elements with other stories, pausing what is being told about a character to talk about another individual, finally leading us to a general idea which was the primary objective to get to as we can see on the right. Surely the narrator becomes an important element when trying to reach an innovative style of writing. Chaucer’s narrator does this with skill as seen in his interventions and the connections he produces in the text. The storyteller is the mediator between the reader, that entity that tries to make sense out of everything, and the story.
Through the first two parts of the story the narrator makes questions as those seen on the excerpts to the left which guide the story to where he has intended it to go. As I am currently reading Rayuela for my Pre-AP Spanish Literature course I can’t stop comparing the narrator of The Canterbury Tales to Cortázar’s narrator who gives the reader glimpses of the story behind his characters as he finishes reading distant chapters and memories. Although I believe these narrator interventions and styles are not necessary to carry out the main ideas of the story they make the Knight’s Tale and other pieces who employ such a personification of the narrator different from the several billions of other stories that deal with the same themes and motivations. We are taught in our early years that it isn’t what you say but how you say it, in this case that is probably true. 
In the Knight’s Tale we can observe how the narrator works out the course of his story by guiding the reader into connecting elements with other stories, pausing what is being told about a character to talk about another individual, finally leading us to a general idea which was the primary objective to get to as we can see on the right. Surely the narrator becomes an important element when trying to reach an innovative style of writing. Chaucer’s narrator does this with skill as seen in his interventions and the connections he produces in the text. The storyteller is the mediator between the reader, that entity that tries to make sense out of everything, and the story.
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