Point Of View FIRST PERSON AND THIRD PERSON

Point Of View FIRST PERSON AND THIRD PERSON NARRATORS

Defining Point of View Point of view is the perspective telling the story. The voice speaking to the reader. The narrator relates everything that is being seen in the novel

Types of Narrators 1. Third- Person Omniscient Point of View. In the third- person omniscient position, a narrator from “outside” the story world tells the story. This point of view is “third person” because the narrator refers to all characters in third person, as “he” and “she. ” It is omniscient because the narrator assumes near complete knowledge of characters’ actions, thoughts, and locations. Omniscient narrators move at will between places, historical periods, and characters. They sometimes even speak directly to the reader. Needless to say, their godlike knowledge exceeds what any of us knows about the real world. It is as if the omniscient narrator hovers above the story world, seeing and hearing everything, including characters’ thoughts.

Types of Narrators ◦ 2. Third-person limited point of view- similar to the omniscient narrators but they restrict (limit) their perspective to the mind of one character. This character may be either a main or peripheral character. ◦ 3. Third-person Objective point of view- narrators in the objective point of view refer to characters in the third person and display omniscient knowledge of places, times, and events. They do not, however, enter the minds of any characters. We learn about the characters from what they say, do and look like and what other characters say about them. But we do not learn what they think unless they tell us.

Types of Narrators ◦ 4. First-person point of view- In the first person point of view, one of the characters tells the story and uses the first- person pronoun, “I. ” In the third person limited point of view, the narrator reveals anything about one character- even things characters may be dimly aware of. But here the narration is restricted to what one character says he or she observes. The narrator may be a major character located at the center of events or a minor character who observes the action from the sidelines

Types of Narrators Can you speak about narrators you have encountered in stories you have read?

The Wrong Choice Paria by Melissa

Analysis of Story Summary The story tells of a young wench, the “I” narrator who is on her dying bed. She is am AIDS patient and recalls to the reader how she landed herself in such a predicament. It is Brian Bradshaw, a hazel brown eyes young lad who transmitted the disease to the narrator. The narrator regrets her decision two years ago, indicating that though Brian has infected her it is she who has caused such pain and suffering on herself, “I caused the pain and suffering on myself. ”

Analysis of Story PLOT The type of conflict in the story is one of man vs man. The narrator met a young man by the name of Brian Bradshaw; fell in love with him; gave her virginity to him and was infected with HIV. Brian is the cunning villain in this story who appeared to be gentle and caring but was very venomous, filled with HIV poison and certainly met his prey. The resolution of the conflict is the narrator’s acceptance of her position and freedom from AIDS through death. The plot is a flashback and the flashback technique is used to highlight a particular incident in the past so as to assist the reader with understanding the present.

Analysis of the story CHARACTERS The first person narrator was age sixteen at the time when she contracted HIV. The reader learns that she does not easily enter a relationship with someone as she waited 6 months before she and Brad became a couple, “six months after we became a couple. ” We get a sense that she prized her virginity as she waited until nine months before they had sex. She is one to respect her parents and she did not want to offend them by returning home late from her dates with Brad. As such, she had a “self imposed curfew. ” However, she is a strongminded person as she was determined to see Brad no matter what her parents thought.

Analysis of the story CHARACTERS She is allergic to dust, she is a CXC graduate and is adventurous as the story states that she and her friends had taken a trip to Tobago for the day when she was 16 years. By the time of her death she is 18 years. This character experiences changes with respect to her health, she ages by two years and lives and dies in the story.

Analysis of the story CHARACTERS Brian Bradshaw “Has most beautiful hazel brown eyes. ” He is a trickster as he was only after one thing and had a mission of spreading HIV. One could understand why Brain would want to spread HIV because someone gave it to him. Brian contrasts the narrator because he does not understand that he was responsible for his own actions

Analysis of Story SETTING Probably a time around the 1980 s when the inter island ferry, “The Panorama” was the medium of transport and took approximately 6 hrs to reach to its destination. The reader views that the narrator quickly succumbed to her disease in contrast to modern day where there is the HIV treatment which can prolong lives.

Analysis of the story THEMES Family Relationships Love vs Infatuation Sickness and Disease Death Regret