In William Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, a unique narrator has been used. An unnamed narrator serves us in the story with Jefferson's people’s voice, a collective voice. It is not certain whether is a man or a woman. By doing this William Faulkner hides his narrator behind the pronoun “we”. At the last, the narrator says “Already we knew it” about Homer Barron’s body. Actually, the narrator is not a collective person, just a single person I think. This is just a technique to indicate her or his own thoughts as the whole townspeople’s thoughts. The point of view is also a bit different. It seems to be the third person of view because the town’s people already know all about Emily’s life, despite her secret and lonely life. If Miss Emily wrote the story, she would have given more detail and we probably know the reasons why she did, for instance, whether or not she killed Homer Barron. But with the third person point of view, we do have not enough information about the details. We just get a judgemental view where we can only draw conclusions. If the Tobe who is described in the story as a negro servant man were to tell the story, the truth might also come out. Because he lives with Emily in the same house, he might be able to tell us what actually happened there. The style of the chronological order is the best part of this story. It makes readers as if they unraveling the murder.
In the short story The Wall, the main character Pablo Ibietta is the narrator of the story. He tells the story from the first point of view. When he is sentenced to death and is sent to the cell his thoughts and manner of tellings facilitate understanding how it feels to be face to face with death with his perspective. He also honestly narrates to us how his cell mates Juan, Tom, and even the Belgian doctor is feeling. “Do people suffer—very long?” asked Juan to the Belgian doctor. Then the narrator Pablo says “He was terribly afraid of suffering… As for me, I hardly thought about it anymore and it certainly was not fear of suffering that made me perspire.” He truly makes inferences about Juan’s feelings and what he thinks about them.
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The narration of the film should be considered a bit different from the stories. Unlike the stories, there is no narrator in the movie of course. But the writer of The Judgement of Nuremberg tells the story objectively. Not only the writer but also the director and characters play crucial roles in the film. The tirades of each Ernst Janning, Herr Rolfe, and the american prosecutor are amazing. Honestly, Herr Rolfe’s speech cajoled me for a moment and led me to think about “I must believe it” What if he is right, they were really unaware of what is happening in their country. However, the prosecutor and his videos shown in the courtroom are also dreadful and make me think those who caused this and remain silent must be punished without any doubt. This dilemma takes place until the end of the film. The reason is not what is right or what is wrong, the reason is the narration of the characters in the film. The specialty of the characters after the movie ended, was the only thing that affects me.
Consequently, the reason I choose these short stories with respect to “Judgement at Nuremberg” is different from each other. When considering The Wall, there is a trial also and it helps me to understand the time before the Nuremberg Judgement. There is a link between the trial in “The Wall” and “Judgement at Nuremberg”. In the movie, it is mentioned that the defendants who are formerly a judge made some sentences to people unjustly and without interrogation. Just like on the wall. These political trials are very similar to one another and it really affected me. The other one “A Rose For Emily” affected me from a different view. Generally, the time and the period impress me because this society is in a change and their attitudes about slavery, and seeing themselves as superior are also, within this period, making the comparison between the Nuremberg people and Jefferson’s people easier. Besides the similarity between those periods, Erns Janning’s speech is also the reason that takes me to “A Rose for Emily”, he says “I am aware. I am aware! My counsel would have you believe we were not aware of the concentration camps. Not aware. Where were we? Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate in Reichstag? Where were we when our neighbors were being dragged out in the middle of the night to Dachau?! Where were we when every village in Germany has a railroad terminal where cattle cars were filled with children being carried out to their extermination? Where were we when they cried out in the night to us? Deaf, dumb, blind!!” Just like a second-class man Homer Barron’s disappearing.
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