Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw,

Write a 500-750 word interpretation of Timothy Garton Ash’s The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague. New York: Penguin/Random House, 1993. Book.
Specifically, examine the roles that Garton Ash adopts in the course of the book, then select one and examine its function and effect(s). Why does Garton Ash adopt that role; what contribution does it make to the structure, style, veracity of The Magic Lantern?
RESOURCES:
Roles: an Incomplete List:

1. Timothy Garton Ash
2. ‘Edward Marston’ and ‘Mark Brandenburg’ (We the People, 131)
3. the author, the participant (11)
4. the politician (12)
5. the ‘troublemaker’ (13)
6. the partier (19)
7. the salesperson (20)
8. the absentee (21)
9. the witness (69)

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