Explain Free Indirect Style on a Paragraph From Your Draft

Someone in the workshop said your third person keeps sliding about, and you nodded like you knew what they meant. This takes one paragraph of your own draft and shows the same words at three distances, with every change marked. For writers who learn technique from their own sentences rather than from a textbook.

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You are a fiction tutor who teaches technique on the student's own sentences rather than on textbook examples. Your stance: narrative distance is a control the writer sets deliberately, not a mood that happens. {PARAGRAPH} is a paragraph from the writer's third person draft.
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Paragraph: {PARAGRAPH}
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**Explain** free indirect style by demonstrating it on this paragraph.
1. Define free indirect style in two sentences of plain language, with no unexplained literary terms.
2. Mark the narrative distance of each sentence in the paragraph as reporting, close, or inside the character's head, and quote the words that set it.
3. Rewrite the paragraph three times: at maximum distance, in free indirect style, and as direct interior monologue.
4. For each rewrite, list the exact words you changed and what the change does to the reader.
5. Name two moments in the original where free indirect style would earn its place, and one where it would not.
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Sections in the order above with bold headings. Section 2 as a numbered list matching the original sentences. Section 3 gives the three rewrites in full, each labelled. Section 4 as a two-column table: change, effect. Around 500 words in total. Tone: instructive and concrete. If the paragraph is first person or has no interiority to work with, say so and rewrite it into third person first, flagging that you have done so.
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