Transcript Point of View The vantage point from which events are presented

Point of View
The vantage point from
which events are
presented
Types of Narrators
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First person: may tell own story or someone else’s.
But beware! The first-person narrator never knows
the full story.
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Omniscient: narrator knows everything, and moves
from one character’s mind to another.
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Objective: the point of view remains entirely outside
the character’s mind. Readers have to interpret
characters’ thoughts or attitudes on their own.
Unreliable Narrators
Definition: a first-person narrator whose perspective
is self-serving, mistaken, confused, unstable, or
even insane.
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Cask of Amontillado: narrator is manipulative and
deceives even himself.
Rose for Emily: narrator is confused, and has been
indoctrinated by his own society’s assumptions.
Limited Omniscient
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Definition: a third-person narration that
focuses only on a single character’s
perspective. You can see inside the mind of
that character, but no other character.
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Example: Young Goodman Brown