From whose perspective...? POINT of VIEW. 1 st Person POV n I, me, my, we, our…

From whose perspective...?

POINT of VIEW

1st Person POV

I, me, my, we, our…

First Person Narrator

• Uses “I”

• Story is told from a main character’s POV


Advantages: • Readers see events

from the perspective of an important character

• Readers often understand the main character better


Disadvantages: • The narrator may be

unreliable—insane, naïve, deceptive, narrow minded etc...

• Readers see only one perspective

2nd Person POV

You, yours, your, yourself

• second-person POV is rare

• Uses “you” and presents commands

• Often the narrator is speaking to him/herself

2nd Person POV

• This is a delicious and simple recipe to make. It's also called "Poke Cake." Try it!

• You will need to follow these steps: • 1. Use a sheet cake (9 x 13) baking pan. Prepare an

ordinary white cake mix according to box directions. • 2. Make holes in sheet cake with fork or chopstick when

cool. Holes should go all the way through cake to bottom pan. Entire cake should be perforated this way with holes every 1/2 - 3/4 inch.

• 3. Prepare a large box of flavored gelatin with 2 cups of boiling water and stir to dissolve completely. Do not chill.

• 4. Pour warm gelatin liquid evenly over entire cake. Holes in cake allow gelatin to seep into cake.

• 5. Place cake in refrigerator until gelatin firms, about 3 hours.

• 6. Spread delicious whipped topping (8 oz thawed) over top of cake and decorate with colorful candy sprinkles.

• You will find the jello cake to be Yummy!

2nd Person POV

3rd Person POV

OmniscientLimited

Omniscient = all knowing…the narrator can see into the minds of all characters

3rd Person POV: Omniscient

Omniscient:

• godlike narrator; he/she can enter character's minds and know everything that is going on, past, present, and future.

• May be a narrator outside the text


•Advantage: very natural technique; author is, after all, omniscient regarding his work.


• Disadvantage: not lifelike; narrator knows and tells all; is truly a convention of literature



I. Annabeth

Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.

She’d paced the deck of their flying warship, the Argo II, checking and double-checking the ballistae to make sure they were locked down.

V. Leo

Leo wished he could invent a time machine. He’d go back two hours and undo what had happened. Either that, or he could invent a Slap-Leo-in-the-Face machine to punish himself, though he doubted it would hurt as badly as the look Annabeth was giving him.

Narrator can see into ONE character’s mind.

3rd Person POV: Limited

• All characters have thought privacy except ONE.


Advantages• Gives the

impression that we are very close to the mind of that ONE character, though viewing it from a distance.


Disadvantages• Sometimes this

narrator can be too focused or may impose his/her own opinions with no grounds.


• It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice.

The Giver Lois Lowry


POINT of VIEWRemember, Point of View

= Who is telling the story

and how much they contribute.

The end.

2nd Person POV

First person Narrator

• When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.

•Somewhere inside me is a merciful,

forgiving person. Somewhere there is a

girl who tries to understand what people

are going through, who accepts that

people do evil things and that

desperation leads them to darker places

than they ever imagined. I swear she

exists, and she hurts for the repentant

boy I see in front of me.

But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.

First person Narrator


"She and Harry went down to the store. It was cold that day, and damp, and she was chilled to the bone. Harry, on the other hand, didn't feel the cold at all. He was thinking only about the argument they'd had last night."


“Nearly Headless Nick took several deep breaths and then said, in a far calmer tone, "So - what's bothering you? Anything I can do?"

"No," said Harry. "Not unless you know where we can get seven free Nimbus Two Thousand and Ones for our match against Sly -"

The rest of Harry's sentence was drowned out by a high-pitched mewling from somewhere near his ankles. He looked down and found himself gazing into a pair of lamp-like yellow eyes. It was Mrs. Norris, the skeletal gray cat who was used by the caretaker, Argus Filch, as a sort of deputy in his endless battle against students.

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