Writing style in "The Stone Diaries"

Recently, the Globe and Mail ran a television advertisement that depicted a woman who was reading a copy of the Globe and Mail in an airport. As she passed through the security section, the inside of her head was shown to be bursting with bright lights whereas the seemingly narcissistic dope who passed through the metal detector in front of her was shown to have only a pea inside his head. The advertisement was obviously meant to show that the Globe and Mail is an effective medium to learn information from. This newspaper is just one of many media that human beings can be educated by. The vantage point that people views a story from will affect their opinions of that story. For example, a picture of an event can imply something completely different from a written or oral report of that event. Similarly, a person who watches a movie will probably interpret that movie’s story completely differently than a person who reads the source material for that movie. However, if one comes...