You are the second person pronoun in Arabic narration

The space occupied by second-person narration has expanded remarkably in recent decades, such that "you" has become part of the story, not just a communicative "you" between the writer and the reader. The narrator's second-person speech has become representative or reportive (informative rather than performative, to use the language of classical rhetoric); he tells the story, portrays the characters, narrates the events, and describes the time, place, and circumstances using the second-pers...