WHO'S TELLING THE STORY ANYWAY.?

ACROSS FIVE APRILS

DIFFERENT TYPES OF POINT OF VIEW

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• First person
• Second person
• Third person

FIRST PERSON

• limits the reader to that one perspective
• The reader only knows what writer knows
• Allows a reader to get close to the writers point of view

SECOND PERSON

• Used in do-it yourself books
• Uses "you" a lot
• Example "you would think having siblings is fun"

THIRD PERSON

• Shows emotions of all characters
• Isn't a character in the story
• Limited
• Harder then first person,
• Has more freedom in the writing then 1st person.

WHO IS TELLING WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY?

• The person telling the story is not a character in it
• It is third person,
• "Jenny had poured fresh water into a basin so that her mother-
• -and jethro could cool their faces and wash dirt and grime from their hands

THE NARRATOR IS AN OUTSIDE OBSERVER

• "They worked for an hour or more without speaking-
• -Ellen was grave and absorbed in the anxious thoughts of that spring-
• -Jethro was accustomed to adapting himself to the moods of older people- "
• "It was an honor he accepted with dignity-"
• (Note that they only use they, them, her, he, him, and she. Not I, me, us, we,& myself)

THE NARRATOR USES THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW

• I know because it tells me all about the characters but it doesn't use I, me, we
• Examples from my book are :
• "Her name was next on the list"
• "She sighed, but with certain satisfaction."

THE NARRATOR TELLS THE THOUGHTS OF THE CREIGHTON FAMILY

• "He was suddenly old and weak-not himself anymore"(pg.94)
• "It brought some comfort to the whole family" (pg. 108)
• "Ellen was deeply ashamed of her dependency upon coffee" p.64

THE NARRATOR USES THIRD PEROSN PRONOUNS

EXAMPLES FROM BOOK:

• "He lay quietly, still shaken from the terror of his nightmare"
• "Ellen made him share her coffee that morning" (p.68)
• "He was pleased to be compared to Shad" (p. 95)