1. Exploring Different Point of View

2. Think about it…
An automobile accident occurs. Two drivers are involved. Witnesses include four sidewalk spectators, a policeman, a man with a video camera who happened to be shooting the scene, and the pilot of a helicopter that was flying overhead. Here we have nine different points of view and, most likely, nine different descriptions of the accident.

3. Point of View
In short fiction, who tells the story and how it is told are critical issues for an author to decide. The tone and feel of the story, and even its meaning, can change radically depending on who is telling the story.

4. Group 2: Lay down your heads during this slide. No PEEKING!
Group 1, as you read the story, you are reading it as if you are a burglar, ready to rob a house! Try to remember all details that you will need to know for your job!

5. Group 1: Lay down your heads during this slide. No PEEKING!
Group 2, you are a Real Estate agent! While you read the story, try to remember all the details that will be helpful in selling the house!

6. Why is Point of View Important?
The House

7. 4 Types of Point of View Point of View First Person Point of View
Second Person Point of View
Third Person Limited Point of View
Third Person Omniscient Point of View

8. First Person Point of View
When a character in the story is telling you the story.
Using words like I, my, or we
When reading stories in the first person, we need to realize that what the narrator is recounting might not be the objective truth. We should question the trustworthiness of the accounting.

9. Second Person Point of View
Story told from the perspective of “you”
Ex. Self-Help books
Tom Robbins's "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas," "The day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back is the worst day of your life. Or so you think. It isn't the worst day of your life, but you think it is."
Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Online Adventure

10. Third Person Limited Point of View
Outside Voice, usually nameless
Narrator is NOT one of the characters
Uses he, she, or they to tell you the story
Focuses on the actions and feelings of only the main character.

11. Third Person Omniscient
“All Knowing” Outside Voice
godlike narrator; he/she can enter character's minds and know everything that is going on, past, present, and future
Also uses he, she, they
A narrator who knows everything about ALL of the characters.

12. Resources