Narrators can change the way a story sounds drastically, because of their point of view towards the main character or main event. If a narrator was to hate the main character, the narrator wouldn't tell good things about the character, but only mention bad things. On the other hand if the narrator was the main character's best friend, the narrator would then make the character honorable.
In the story Evacuation Order No. 19. the narrator seems to be a more neutral narrator, one who doesn't have much attachment to either side of the situation, or has any relation to the main character. However no narrator is ever completely neutral, even in historical documents. So to speak "the victors write the history". So if the narrator was told he had to choose a side to stand on, I believe that he would have choose to stand on Ms. Hayashi's side. The reason behind my guess is because in the story the narrator give me a feeling that he/she feels sympathy towards Ms. Hayashi and the tone gives the narrator away. The tone makes the event seem very hard to go through, maybe even more than it really is, but we will never know. For example in the story the narrator uses specific words choices to bring out the mood even more. The narrator chooses words that we can all relate to, words we have all experienced. From this story it was really hard to tell from the details of which side of the story the narrator was standing on, but the tone gave him/her away. The tone is a very important tool for a writer to express how the narrator feels towards the story.
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