The Gods Must be Crazy Narrative Techniques

The narrator in "The Gods Must Be Crazy" by Jamie Uye uses a third person point of view to tell us about The Kalahari, the desert that looks like it's paradise but it's nothing like it and that no one lives there, except for the Bushmen, a tribe that doesn't know the civilized man, and have no problems at all although the little possibilities to live in a place like The Kalahari are, and also they have solutions for everything, education, eating, drinking, in-between others. The narration is a direct narration because the narrator talks directly to us and makes us feel we are the main audience of the text, using the word use is the best clue we have to know this. The speech is reported speech because the narrator is telling us a story, in this case a documentary of a group of people who live in The Kalahari, one of the places where I wouldn't like to go for my vacation, where people only go to die, except for the Bushmen. The tense is present, this is visible through out the whole text, all the words are used in present tense, this is because the text tries to be a documentary.