Transcript Point of View

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Point of View
 A point of view is the view or angle on how
a story is told or interpreted. However there
are different kinds of points of views that an
author can use.
First Person Narrative
 First person/narrator is a person who tells the story
from himself using words such as “I” or “we.”
 This allows the reader to understand the persons
opinions, thoughts, or feelings in the book from
the narrators perspective or main character of the
story.
Second-Person
 This point of view uses the main character of the
story to engage the readers by using terms such as
“you”
 It also means that a main character could also be
referred to by a second character using the
pronoun “you”
 Second person helps engage us in the context so
that the message the author is trying to convey to
the audience is more clear and direct.
Third-Person Omniscient
 When a narrator tells the story, he/she knows
everything about the characters, events, and can
move anywhere in time or place.
 The narrator can understand the mind or emotions
of all the characters.
 This provides us a larger perspective with all the
characters in the story from the narrator’s view
because the narrator knows what the other
characters are thinking.
Third-Person Limited
 Third person limited is a point of view that
limits the reader to only the observation,
thoughts, and feelings of only one character.
 We can better understand the character’s
thoughts in the text, however we cannot see
what the other characters opinions/feelings
are in the story.
What Point of View is this?
 “Throw open the door of
the boudoir, Aminadab,”
Said Alymer, “and burn a
pastille.” “Yes, master,”
answered Aminadab,
looking intently at the
lifeless form of
Georgiana; and then he
muttered to himself: “If
she were my wife, I’d
never part with that
Birthmark.” (210)
 Third-Person
Omniscient, because
not only is the story
told from the narrator,
but he also knows
Aminadab, a science
helper, thoughts about
Georgiana birthmark
while Alymer gave
orders. The story from
the birthmark.
Is this third person also?
 “So we heading down the
street and she’s boring us
silly about what things
cost and what our parents
make and how much goes
for rent and how money
ain’t divided up right in
this country. And then she
gets to the part about we
all poor and live in the
slums, which I don’t
feature.” (398)
 This would be an
example of a thirdperson limited because
the narrator tells the
story through a girl
name Sylvia and that
we can see her
thoughts. This quote is
from the lesson.
Poe’s Cask of Amontillado
 “You, who so well
know the nature of my
soul, will not suppose,
however, that I gave
utterance to a threat”
(217)
 It feels like Poe is
talking to the readers
because he tells the
readers that we should
know the nature of his
soul. This gives us a
sense that this part of
the story was told in a
second-point of view.
Poe’s Cask of Amontillado
 “I Thrust a torch through
the remaining aperture and
let it fall within. There
came forth in return only a
jingling of the bells. My
heart grew sick; it was the
dampness of the
catacombs that made it so.
I hastened to make an end
of my labor. I forced the
last stone into its position;
I plastered it up.” (222)
 The quote gives us the
impression that this is
told at a first person
point of view because
the author, Poe, uses
the word “I” a lot in
this quote as well as
sharing some of his
thoughts.