Chelle Jones. Literature provides a lens through which readers look at the world. Point of view is the way the author allows you to "see" and "hear" what's.

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Chelle Jones

Literature provides a lens through which readers look at the world. Point of view is the way the author allows you to "see" and "hear" what's going on. Skillful authors can fix their readers' attention on exactly the detail, opinion, or emotion the author wants to emphasize by manipulating the point of view of the story.

 First-person point of view is in use when a character narrates the story with I-me-my-mine in his or her speech.  Second-person point of view, in which the author uses you and your, is rare; authors seldom speak directly to the reader.  And lastly, Third-person point of view is that of an outsider looking at the action

 Tom Robbins's Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas  "How to Become a Writer,":  Or even something that gives direction

Jane AustenJane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, like many classic novels, is told from the third person point of view: Third person is basically you saying everything that happened but your not apart of it. Many writers that start off, feel this is a easy perspective write from