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POINT OF VIEW

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POINT OF VIEW

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WHAT IS POINT OF VIEW? (P.O.V.)

The term “point of view” has many applications, from video game development to the interpretation of art.

When studying the perspective of the narrator, the reader is concerned with the relationship between the person telling the story (the narrator) and the agents referred to by the story teller (the characters).

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MODES OF NARRATION There are six key terms used in the

study of narrative view point: First-person, Second-person, Third-person, Third-person objective, Third-person limited, and Third-person omniscient.  

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CONTINUE Each term refers to a specific mode of

narration defined by two things: the distance of the narrator from the story

(the pronoun case) and how much the narrator reveals about the

thoughts and feelings of the characters (narrative access).

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FIRST PERSON NARRATION

In this mode, the narrator is usually the protagonist or central character in the story.  But even if this character is not the protagonist, he or she is directly involved in the events of the story and is telling the tale “first hand.”

 First-person narration is easy to identify, because the narrator will be telling the story from “I’s” perspective.  Readers should watch for the narrator’s use of first-person pronouns- “I, me, my, our, us, we, myself, and ourselves,” as these will usually indicate that the passage is narrated from first-person perspective.  

Remember, with this skill readers are trying to identify the perspective of the narrator; therefore, one must ignore the dialogue of characters (indicated by “quotation marks”) and solely focus on narration, otherwise one is not analyzing the narrator’s point of view.

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SECOND PERSON NARRATION

In this mode of narration “you” are the agent, such as in this example: you walked down the stairs.  As it is generally awkward for a story to be narrated from “your” perspective, this mode of narration is not used very often in narratives and stories.  

There are some exceptions, however, and second-person perspective is the primary mode of narration for similarly styled writings.  

More frequently, directions and instructions are usually narrated from second-person perspective.

In most cases, directions will be written in short imperative sentences, where the implied subject is “you.”  But even when “you” is not explicitly stated, it is understood that “you” are the subject of directions and instructions.

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THIRD-PERSON NARRATION With this mode of narration, the narrator tells the

story of another person or group of people. The narrator may be far removed from or not involved in the story. He or she may be a supporting character supplying narration for a hero.

Frequent use of “he, she, them, they, him, her, his, her, and their” by the narrator may indicate that a passage is narrated from third-person perspective.  

There are three distinct modes of third-person narration: objective, limited, and omniscient.

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CONTINUE Which mode the narrator is using is

determined by a single variable – How much the narrator accesses the

thoughts, feelings, and internal workings of the characters and shares them with the reader through narration.

Characters’ feelings and motivations can be inferred and understood through their behaviour and dialogue in each of the three modes of third-person narration; however, in determining which mode the narrator is operating, the readers should be concerned with finding instances where the narrator explicitly reveals a character’s thoughts or feelings.

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THIRD-PERSON OBJECTIVE NARRATION

In this mode of narration, the narrator tells a third-person’s story (he, she, him, her), but the narrator only describes characters’ behaviour and dialogue. 

The narrator does not reveal any character’s thoughts or feelings. Again, readers will be able to understand characters’ thoughts and motivations based on characters’ actions and dialogue, which are narrated; however, the narrator will not explicitly reveal character’s thoughts and/or motivations in narration.

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THIRD-PERSON LIMITED When a narrator uses third-person limited

perspective, the narrator’s perspective is limited to the internal workings of one character. In other words, the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character through explicit narration. As with objective narration, readers may be able to infer characters’ thoughts and feelings based on the behaviours and dialogue of those characters, which are narrated, but the narrator also directly reveals the central character’s internal perspective.

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THIRD-PERSON OMNISCIENT In this mode of narration, the narrator

grants readers the most access to characters’ thoughts and feelings.  

With third-person omniscient narration, the narration will reveal more than one characters’  internal workings.

The base word omni means “all,” and scient means “knowing,” so omniscient roughly translates to “all knowing.”  In this case, the etymology is accurate, because in omniscient narration, the narrator is all knowing.

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Read the following passages and determine the narrative perspective, then explain how you were able to identify the point of view- if the passage is third person, explain which character’s thoughts are revealed.

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to herterrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank. He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair. But most waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a of all, he just wanted to pull one.

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Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary. We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone. We let her have one of the mattresses.

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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.