Can someone explain this to me in words normal people can understand.?

This handling of time in narration has several effects:


(1) It foregrounds the `feel' and `texture' of individual consciousness in the present moment of experience.


(2) It backgrounds the role of information as knowledge-about-events-and-characters.


(3) It makes such knowledge something secondary and almost incidental that the reader has to accumulate through progressive and alert reading, rather than something given by a narrator to the reader.


(4) The causal relations between events, and the effects of events on individual characters is made less obvious, as something whose significance dawns on the reader slowly, as the narrative sequence unfolds. The manner in which the reader acquires knowledge is thus made similar to the way, in life, we sense the significance of events only gradually, and in a piecemeal manner, which can often be belated.|||Basically, this type of narration is based on "personal experience", it is narrated in a manner that makes you feel as if you are experiencing YOURSELF and come to realization of events YOURSELF. (instead of just laying out the facts to you in the text...they build up to it, causing you to almost "experience it along with them")





Hope that helps.