Today we studied how to locate and to define Narrative Voice. I placed the definition and elements of narrative voice on the board noting the importance of the narrator's background and the narrator's distance (physical or in time) from the related story . We then parsed the first two chapters of Eliot's Silas Marner practicing how to identify the narrative voice. I pointed out how the narrator is relating the story of Silas Marner that took place some years earlier but focused on the narrator's physical proximity to the story's location. In other words, we explored how the narrator is a now resident of the town or is physically close to the story's locale, but separated not only by time but also by her educational background.By studying tone ,we were able to discern that the narrator's apparent criticism of the former society of her locale remains restrained or tempered because she now resides in the area and understands the people she is describing in the novel.