Student Survey -- Lab 224
1. Individual Reading time --
2. Today: Figure out which type of point of view your book is.
Answer in your composition book, including quotes that show the point of view.
Write 1/3 page or more.
First Person?
Second Person (Rare)?
Third Person?
Examples:
Examples of Point of View:
first person: (I, me, my, mine, our, us, we)
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. page 1
and
"Sure," I said tiredly, "we're young and innocent." p. 26
and (Ponyboy is telling this about other characters in the book.)
Two-Bit messed up his [Johnny's] hair, "Sorry kid," he said, "I forgot." page 28
second person: (you, your, yours)
When you stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, you had only two things on your mind: Paul Newman and ride home.
and
"Sure," you said tiredly, "we're young and innocent."
and
Two-Bit messed up (Johnny's) hair, "Sorry kid," he said, "I forgot."
third person: (he, she, his, hers, theirs, him, her, the main character's name)
When he stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, Ponyboy had only two things on his mind: Paul Newman and ride home.
and
"Sure," Ponyboy [or he] said tiredly, "we're young and innocent."
and
Two-Bit messed up his [or Johnny's] hair, "Sorry kid," he said, "I forgot."
Example: from Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master by Emily Rodda, pages 1-3
This novel is written in third person. I can tell because the author is using the names of the characters and referring to them with "He, him, his, etc."
"Shadows flitted around him, eager to do his will. He gestured, and the goblet at his side filled with dark red wine."
"The tall woman tore her anxious eyes from the darkness and glanced around."
There is no character from within the book who tells the story using "I, me, my, etc."
3. Pair share: Use your ____1___ o'clock appointment.
4. Reading Gregor the Overlander -- Begin on page 58, chapter 6. We read to page 73, chapter 7
And figure out which type of third person point of view Gregor the Overlander is.
What is the point of view?
Within third person point of view, there are limited omniscient and omniscient narrators., and sometimes objective view.
"One of the most common forms of third-person is third-person limited. In third-person limited, the narrator is still telling us about what's happening, but we are given the opportunity to see one character's innermost thoughts and feelings. In other words, the narrator's ability to tell us about thoughts and feelings is limited to one character.
"Another common (although somewhat trickier) form of third-person is third-person omniscient, in which the narrator is able to tell us the thoughts and feelings of every character that appears. The term omniscient means 'all-knowing,' so one way to remember this form of third-person is to think of the narrator as having psychic powers."
from http://study.com/academy/lesson/third-person-point-of-view-definition-examples-quiz.html
Another type of third person narrative is "camera view," also known as "objective view" which "allows the narrator to record the action from his or her own point of view, being unaware of any of the characters' thoughts or feelings." -- Write Source 2000, page 344
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
“Hansel walked ahead of Gretel; after all, he knew he belonged in the front because Gretel was just a girl. Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went, knowing that her bumbling brother couldn’t be counted on to find his way home from the outhouse, let alone from the middle of the woods.
Ahead of them, an old witch waited, her stomach rumbling at the thought of what a delicious dinner the two plump children would make.”
https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/
Third Person Limited:
Here’s our Hansel and Gretel example, but from third person limited, with Gretel as the point of view character:
“Hansel walked ahead of Gretel. Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went, knowing that her bumbling brother couldn’t be counted on to find his way home from the outhouse, let alone from the middle of the woods.”
Notice that the mention of the witch is gone, since Gretel has no knowledge of her at this point.
https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/
Objective Point of View:
Objective point of view contains no references to thoughts or feelings; it only reports what can be seen and heard. One way to imagine this POV would be to think of the narrator as a roving movie camera.
Here’s our Hansel and Gretel example, but from the objective POV:
“Hansel walked ahead of Gretel. Gretel dropped breadcrumbs behind her as she went.
Ahead of them, an old witch waited.”
Notice that none of the passage is italicized, because all of it is action, and no thoughts or feelings are included at all.
https://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/
Example: from Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master by Emily Rodda, pages 1-3
The first chapter of this book is written with a limited-omniscient point of view. The first page seems like objective or camera POV, using only description of what someone watching could see.
"In his jewel-studded cavern at the center of the island, the King of Tier stirred. Shadows flitted around him, eager to do his will. He gestured, and the goblet at his side filled with dark red wine."
On the second page we find out that the narrator can go inside the King's head:
"Troubling memories he had thought long buried were stirring in his mind. . . .
"The King shut his eyes, but pictures still flickered behind his eyelids -- "
Most of the third and fourth pages again seem to be objective or camera view, but the narrator is describing the King's memories, so we know that the narrator is inside the King's mind.
I glanced ahead, and in the second chapter, the narrator is telling what is going on in the mind of another character: "The moment [the customer] walked through the door, Britta had decided it was safe to bargain with her(11). "
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