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Point-of-View
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2. Dialogue and Narration
Dialogue = when characters speak.
Narration = when the narrator speaks.
“Quotation marks” separate narration from dialogue.
Example
“Help” my cousin Jack said.

3. Point-of-view is only referring to the narrator’s point-of-view.
All about the Narrator
Point-of-view is only referring to the narrator’s point-of-view.
You can only look at the narration to determine POV.
Words in dialogue do not count.

4. Three points-of-view
First person
Second person
Third person

5. The narrator is in the story and refers to him/herself.
First Person POV
The narrator is in the story and refers to him/herself.
Narrator will use words like
I, me, we, us, our, my

6. First Person POV Look, I didn’t want to be a half blood.
Example from Percy Jackson:
Look, I didn’t want to be a half blood.
If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. …
My name is Percy Jackson. I’m 12 years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
Am I a troubled kid?
Yeah. You could say that.

7. Second Person POV
The second person is almost never used in literature.
The second person is when the narrator says “You” and puts the reader directly into the story.
Usually for instructions

8. Second Person POV Example
There is darkness everywhere. A small amount of light is radiating from the halfmoon floating in the sky overhead. There are no stars. It is cold and humid. You look around you and find your friends gone. You are completely alone.

9. Wait just a minute!
But the narrator says “you” a lot in the Percy Jackson example. See: If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. It’s true, Percy does talk to the reader sometimes. But Percy is still the one narrating the story, so it is still in his “first person” perspective.

10. But wait! There’s more! Third Person POV
The narrator is telling a story about other people.
Narrator will use words like
He, she, him, her, they, them, their, (and characters’ names).
But wait! There’s more!

11. There are 3 types of third person narrators.
Omniscient
Limited
Objective

12. Third Person Omniscient Narrator
Narrator is all knowing. Narrator tells thoughts and feelings of more than one character. Omni = All Scient = Knowing Example Tim was mad at Shay. He blamed her. Shay knew Tim would be mad, but she wanted to live her life.

13. Third Person Limited Narrator
Narrator is limited to one character. Tells thoughts & feelings of one character Example Tim was mad at Shay. He blamed her. Shay just left without saying anything. She left a note and then left him.

14. Objective Narrator
This narrator can only tell you what can be seen or heard. Narrator does not reveal any character’s thoughts or feelings.
Only character’s dialogue and actions are narrated.
Example
Tim slammed the door. He walked upstairs & read a note from Shay. He kicked her trash can & started crying.

15. Hints to Help “I am in the room” I = 1st Person
“You come in the room.”
You = 2nd Person
“Then he or she came in the room.”
He or She = 3rd Person

16. More Tips
Check 1st or 2nd-person before worrying about objective, limited, or omniscient.
Ask, “Who’s story is the narrator telling: his, mine, or someone else’s?”
Focus on narration not dialogue.

17. Practice Read the following passages.
Determine the narrator’s perspective.
Write down your answer.

18. Guess the Narrator
Lilly shivered and sobbed while sitting alone under the tree. Jacob felt a pang of pity for her, and though he worried what the others might say, he walked to her, sat beside her, and offered her his jacket.
Omniscient
Limited
Objective

19. The Answer Is
Limited

20. Guess the Narrator
Lilly shivered and sobbed while sitting alone under the tree. Jacob gazed at her with a stare suggestive of pity, and his lips tightened as though he debated something of importance. He gave one timid glance back at the others, and then walked boldly over to Lilly and sat beside her and offered her his Jacket.
Omniscient
Limited
Objective

21. The Answer Is
Objective

22. Guess the Narrator
Lilly shivered and tried unsuccessfully not to sob while sitting alone under the tree. She was more embarrassed and miserable than she had ever been. Jacob felt a pang of pity for her, and though he worried what the others might say, he walked to her, sat beside her, and offered her his jacket.
Omniscient
Limited
Objective

23. The Answer Is
Omniscient

24. Guess the Narrator
Lilly shivered and sobbed while sitting alone under the tree. Jacob felt a pang of pity for her. He gave one timid look back to the others. They were playing keep-away with the small boy’s wallet. He could not tell if any of them were paying attention to him now. Regardless, he went to Lilly, sat beside her, and offered her his Jacket.
Omniscient
Limited
Objective

25. The Answer Is
Limited

26. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself… I had no brothers or sisters. So through boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there was just us two, my father and me. We lived in an old gypsy caravan behind a filling station”

27. First Person

28. Flocabulary!!!