What sort of effect does the narrator’s point of view and use of dramatic irony create for the reader?

Isaw my future flash before me and it did not take me anytime to slow down. i need to replace the words "it did".

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?