The Point of View Approach in For Whom the Bell Tolls and EFL Literature Teaching

Abstract

The works of Hemingway exhibit his mastery of the use of categories of point of view. In this inquiry of For Whom the Bell Tolls, the changes in the perspective of the narrator and the discourses of the characters have been analyzed, as constituents considered to discover changes in the perspective of the narrator, as well as in the categories of discourse and the thinking of the characters. As a result, the purpose of this research was the search for a connection between the author's point of view choices and the sociopolitical aspects present in the novel, by representing a different perspective to the current analysis of literary texts for the teaching of English as foreign language. The methodology is qualitative, the research design is documental, at descriptive and correlational level. The categories of the speech and thought presentation model and the sociopolitical approach were used for this research. The study demonstrated the existence of an intrinsic relationship between the sociopolitical approach and the different categories of the speech and thought presentation model, which represents a new approach in the teaching of literature in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL). Key words: Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sociopolitical Approach, Point of View Approach, EFL