A Christmas Story, often regarded by many as an American classic, is praised for it’s narration and ability to bend time and space. The story of A Christmas Story centers around Ralphie Parker’s one Christmas wish; an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock.
A Christmas story opens up by revealing an older Ralphie reflecting on a specific Christmas memory that he experienced at nine years old. It is inferred, although not stated, that the narration comes from a much older man with a raspy, deep voice that refers to nine-year old Ralphie as himself. The ability of an audience to receive the story from an obviously much older version of Ralphie allows the bending of time. By using this style the audience is able to not only see nine-year old Ralphie’s thoughts, but also the thoughts of a much older Ralphie reflecting back in time.…show more content… Through an older Ralphie’s eyes, the audience is allowed to view and “look back” on a memory that has happened in Ralphie’s life. In other words, the audience is truly allowed into Ralphie Parker’s mind and memory and sees the story through Ralphie Parker’s own eyes and mind.
The plot of A Christmas Story covers an unknown exact time period in which the story develops in a chronological way from the time that Ralphie has the opportunity to desire a Red Ryder rifle to a revealing and ironic Christmas day. The events of A Christmas Story follow one another and their relations of cause and effect are easily known. For example, Ralphie’s desire to want a Red Ryder rifle proceeds to conflict by the statement by many, “You’ll shoot your eye out kid,” and comes to a turning point when the story concludes with Ralphie, in fact, thinking that he shot his eye
