Question

Both “Lob’s Girl” and “Jeremiah’s Song” contain flashbacks. In a paragraph, explain what this plot technique adds to the stories. Support your answer with one detail from each story. Use the reading selections to help you answer the question.

Answer 1

In some narratives,flashbacks are used not just to provide the many useful elements already mentioned but to also tie together a theme.A flashback is a sudden, brief relocation to a previous time and then, just as suddenly, a return to the present story. Flashbacks can hint at backstories, but they aren’t backstories themselves. A backstory is a longer trip (in fact, sometimes backstories make up most of a story or even a novel).Flashback devices that are commonly used are past narratives by characters, depictions and references of dreams and memories and a sub device known as authorial sovereignty wherein the author directly chooses to refer to a past occurrence by bringing it up in a straightforward manner. Flashback is used to create a background to the present situation, place or person.

She picked up a bit of driftwood and threw it. Lob, whisking easily out of his master's grip,was after it like a sand-colored bullet. He came back with the stick, beaming, and gave it to Sandy. At the same time he gave himself, though no one else was aware of this at the time.

Sandy was really Alexandra, because her grandmother had a beautiful picture of a queen in a diamond tiara and a high collar of pearls. It hung by Granny Pearce's kitchen sink and was as familiar as the doormat. When Sandy was born, everyone agreed that she was the living spit of the picture. that there is something royal about Sandy's appearance that Granny Pearce looked just like Sandy when she was young that Sandy is actually a queen named Alexandra that Sandy does not like her real name.