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Point of View. 9RL1:c ALRL1:c. Point of View. POV is the perspective, or outlook for which a writer tells a story. Think of POV as a “camera” from which the author shows you the story. The view shown by the camera is classified as one of three perspectives. First Person.
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Point of View 9RL1:c ALRL1:c
Point of View • POV is the perspective, or outlook for which a writer tells a story. • Think of POV as a “camera” from which the author shows you the story. • The view shown by the camera is classified as one of three perspectives.
First Person • The narrator tells the story from his own point of view. • Uses “I”; “I did this”.
Second Person • The book itself addresses the reader, as if the reader is an active character in the book. • “You are walking down the street one morning when…” • This perspective is used the LEAST.
Third Person • This POV contains the majority of fiction written before the 20th century. • In third person, the narrator moves unseen among the characters, relating their actions. • There are two kinds of third person POV:
Third Person-omniscient • The narrator can see everything and everywhere. • The narrator can relate character’s thoughts and emotions.
Third Person-Limited • Centers on one character and observes only what he sees, hears, feels, or does. • Sometimes it will include that one character’s thoughts.
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POV Quiz • What is point of view? • Name the three main types of POV. • Which type is used the least? • Which type is used the most? • In which type can the narrator see and know everyone and everything? Limited or omniscient • Name a genre that might be written in first person.
What point of view is used in the following passage? 7. Our parents had known each other in China; we’d even taken the same boat to America. However, within five years of our arrival in San Francisco, Norman and I had become strangers. Line Relatives already established in the city helped Norman’s parents (5) assimilate. Within a year, they had not only learned English, but had also become real estate moguls. I learned all this from the Chinese American gossip machine that constantly tabulated every family’s level of success. The machine judged my family lacking. My parents ran a grocery store and, unlike Norman’s family, (10) gravitated to the immigrant subculture. They never learned English, but they respected that I tamed that beast of a language. I was my parents’ communication link with the “outside world.” -taken from SAT test prep _______________________________________________
What point of view is used in the following passage? 8. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come him from work.Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come. There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did. The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin -for this was her sixth month with child-had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than before. When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the tires on the gravel outside, and the car door slamming, the footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the lock. She laid aside her sewing, stood up, and went forward to kiss him as he came in. -From Roald Dahl _____________________________________________________________
What point of view is used in the following passage? 9. In that summer of 1861 the first wash of the wave of war broke upon the shores of Missouri. Our state was invaded by the Union forces. They took possession of St. Louis, Jefferson Barracks, and some other points. The governor, Calib Jackson, issued his proclamation calling out fifty thousand militia to repel the invader.-from Mark Twain _________________________________
What point of view is used in the following passage? 10. He plunged in among the big spruce trees. The trail was faint. A foot of snow had fallen since the last sled had passed over, and he was glad he was without a sled, traveling light. In fact, he carried nothing but the lunch wrapped in the handkerchief. He was surprised, however, at the cold. It certainly was cold, he concluded as he rubbed his numb nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand. He was a warm-whiskered man, but the hair on his face did not protect the high cheek-bones and the eager nose that thrust itself aggressively into the frosty air. -From Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” ______________________________________
