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Voice

Voice. a s Point of View. Warm Up: How does our perspective or point of view affect our interpretations?. Point of view. “Who is standing where to watch the scene?” (55). 2 nd most important writing skill (1 st : using “significant detail”)—staying committed to a POV in a piece.

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Voice

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  1. Voice as Point of View

  2. Warm Up: How does our perspective or point of view affect our interpretations?

  3. Point of view • “Who is standing where to watch the scene?”(55). • 2nd most important writing skill (1st: using “significant detail”)—staying committed to a POV in a piece

  4. 1ST PERSON POV - voice • Used when writing in persona • Used with a central narrator (written as if it were a memoir) • Used with a peripheral narrator (“someone on the edge of the action”), (Burroway 56). • Allows for a broad range of intimacy or distance with your reader • Fitting genres for this voice: • Some poetry, especially lyric • Personal writing (memoir and personal essay)

  5. 1st person example of intimacy w/ reader “I always had the impression—and still have and always shall have—that behind every window there was at the very least one pair of eyes watching me. If anyone spoke to me I blushed, because I felt uncomfortably aware that there was something about me that disturbed and upset everybody…” from Closely Observed Trains by BohumilHrabel (Burroway 56).

  6. A distant 1st person pov • “The land is under English law. The court found them guilty and sentenced them accordingly…I commend your endeavor to oppose the baneful influence of vice with the harmonizing acts of civilization, Governor, but I suspect your edifice will collapse without the mortar of fear” from Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenberger (Burroway 56).

  7. Compare/contrast • How were the previous two slides similar and different? • With a partner, make a Venn Diagram with bulleted details

  8. 2nd person pov • Uses “you” • Can be the POV of the story or a “truth” that the character is trying to convey • “Maureen was trying to write her weekly letter to Len. It was heavy going; you can’t say much in a letter” fromThe Ice Age by Margaret Drabble (Burroway 56). • “You might think it’s a bit rare, having long-distance cross-country runners in Borstal…but you’re wrong, and I’ll tell you why” from The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe (Burroway 56).

  9. 2nd person pov cont’d • Fitting genres: a speech, poetry and stories (NOT academic essays) • Allows us to feel closely connected to the narrator • Can make the reader “a character” (Burroway 57)

  10. Try this 3.6: journals • Write about a situation in which you were badly stressed. But write about it in the first person from the point of view of someone else who was present. • Use the same scenario from above, and write about it in the second person, keeping in mind that you’re trying to make your reader identify and ‘become you.’

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