| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1: Literature Review | 第10-23页 |
| ·Narratology, Narration, Narrator and Point of View | 第10-17页 |
| ·Contemporary Criticism and Reviews of Melville's Two Early Works | 第17-23页 |
| Chapter 2: Point of View and Its Functions in Redburn and White Jacket | 第23-37页 |
| ·About Redburn: His First Voyage and White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War | 第24-27页 |
| ·Functions of Child's and Adult's Points of View in First-Person Narration | 第27-37页 |
| ·Organizing the Whole from the Separated Materials | 第29-32页 |
| ·Presenting More Natural, Believable and Vivid Narration | 第32-37页 |
| Chapter 3: The Unique Functions of the Child's Point of View Compared with the Adult's | 第37-48页 |
| ·Expressing Strong Humor or Irony Effectively | 第37-41页 |
| ·Engendering Sympathy Towards the Narrator | 第41-44页 |
| ·Enlarging the Distance between Reality and Ideality | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter 4: Conclusion | 第48-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-53页 |
