STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

SECOND CHAPTER
The second chapter of Normal People deepens the characterization of the two protagonists and develops their relationship. By starting with Marianne watching Connell's playing football in their school's team, the chapter ends with intimate scenes between Marianne and Connell, who have already exchanged thier first kiss. Fot what concern the structure, the chapter doesn't follow a chronological order, since it starts is February 2011 for the first part, then the narration moves back to a few months before, before it returns to the present at the end of the chapter. Moreover, the chapter is composed of narrative sequences and dialogues. The first part clearly presents more narration, and the third person narrator seems to enter Mrianne's mind, indeed the first part is told from her point of view. From the moment the two meet the narration is conveyed by the dialogues between the two. If the first part contributes to give information about Marianne throught showing, the second one focuses on the feelings the two teenagers
eperience during thei dialogues.

THIRD CHAPTER
So as the second chapter, also the third starts in a determined set and time, with Connell and Marianne talking about their University's choices, but that the narration shifts to a previous moment, which is the core of the chapter. Onnly at the end the narration gets back to present, focusing the last part of the chapter on Connell's thoughts about his two lives: the one when he's alone with Marianne and the one at school with his friends, when he pretends not to know Marianne. The body of the chapter, as it has been said, is the central part where events are narrated throught dialogues and scenes. The theme of the chapter is the difference between the life they have when they're at school, and the life when they're alone in a room.