1. Point of View

2. Point of View is…
The vantage point or perspective from which a story is told! Whose EYES are you seeing the story through?

3. The story can be told from several different points of view…
1st Person
3rd Person

4. In 1st Person Point of View…
The reader is seeing the story from one of the character’s eyes!
The narrator is always
“I”

5. In 3rd Person Point of View…
The narrator watches the characters from a distance and tells the reader what’s happening!

6. 3rd Person Point of View Can Be…
Limited
Omniscient

7. Limited Point of View means…
The narrator tells the reader what one character is saying, doing, thinking, and feeling in the story!

8. Omniscient means all knowing! So Omniscient Point of View means…
The narrator is telling the reader what more than one character is saying, doing, thinking, and feeling!

9. In Summary…
Point of View is the vantage point from which the story is told!
In 1st Person point of view, the narrator is “I”
In 3rd Person point of view, the narrator is watching the characters from a distance!
In limited point of view, the narrator is telling the reader what one character is saying, thinking, feeling, and doing !
In omniscient point of view, the narrator tells the reader what more than one character is saying, doing, thinking, and feeling!