me. It creates a narrative form that contains a dynamic interaction between past and present, encompassing history and destiny in a way that also encompasses aspects of the story's theme and enables readers to appreciate multiple dimensions of reality and the continuity of strong moral sensibility. This is consistent with the theory of cognitive childhood development posited by Piaget regarding the age of transition from a purely egocentric mind-set ending at about age seven (in which the universe is felt to be somehow entirely self-directed and self-actuated) toward the stage of concrete operation (Wadsworth 25 et passim), in which self-absorption gives way to an ability to take into account worldviews of others, indeed, to appreciate that other worldview exist.
The intersection of the generational shifts of narrative structure and cognitive theory can be discerne
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