1. Saramago tells the story in the third person (omniscient) because he wants to show us readers how each character changed throughout the asylum. The author wants us to discover how blindness affects their mental and physical abilities. What the characters have experienced and what feelings change with each other, Saramago shows that the characters even learn something along the way. Perhaps blindness is a lesson for these people. This is a lesson because it shows a horrible truth about how quickly the entire system and society collapses if we lose just one of our senses. Additionally, the author shows each character how they feel and what they have experienced so that they can later show that they eventually become heartless, or actually show their true personality.2. The conventional punctuation presented has no effect on the novel because in the novel the author explains that this is how we speak and the absence of quotation marks emphasizes the dialogue. The characters immediately speak to show how scared and panicked they are in quarantine. This is revealed in a conversation where people are in a truly dire situation, with seemingly everyone speaking at once with panic-filled voices. There wasn't much dialogue because the less you understand what they're going through instead of seeing what they're doing you hear their voices all at once to make sure you heard what they did instead of visualizing it in your mind. Saramago does not identify the city in which the blindness epidemic was struck or on which street the first blind man was struck, because he wants us to understand that this disease can occur anywhere and that these "names do not mean nothing anymore. The author does not ...... middle of paper ...... This crudeness and violence was enough to make me feel sick to my stomach on several occasions. This shows how society can change its emotional and physical behaviors when it loses one of its five senses. Through the stories, you assume that the narrator has also become blind and is guided by the doctor's wife. To sum up, this novel affected me with how we should actually see the world, even the smallest features should also be seen as beauty, and our worldview should be more caring than rejecting. SUBJECT Blindfolded: This represents the temporary blindness of the novel. is not actually based on blindness. The novel uses blindness as a parable about society = blindness represents how they see things as they are. The author uses illness to tell a story about human principles, disasters and achievements that occur in our own society..