1. Types of Points of View in Narratives
Review of:
First Person Point of View
Third Person Limited Point of View
and
Third Person Omniscient Point of View

2. Points of Views
Third Person: The narrator is outside the story telling about the events.
Limited: The narrator knows about only one characters thoughts, feelings, hopes, and desires.
Omniscient: The narrator knows all the thoughts, feelings, hopes and desires about all the characters.
First Person: The narrator is inside the story telling about the events and participating as one of the characters in the story.
Look for key words: we, our, us, and personal pronouns, such as I, me, my, and mine.

3. Example of First Person Point of View
My mother and I have a tradition. Each year the first weekend in June we hike to the top of Mount Shasta. The weather is always beautiful; sunny, warm with clear skies, and a breeze that is refreshing enough to help cool us down from our exertions. My favorite part is seeing all the beautiful flowers that wrap around the mountain. Each twist or turn of the trail reveals another vibrant bloom for me to revel in. My mother enjoys the reflective views of the many small ponds and lakes that dot the hike to the top. We both love the time we share to talk and to share with each other. Midway through our trip we reach the summit and stop to marvel at the views and eat a much needed lunch. We doze in the warm sunshine for a while, enjoying the peace and serenity, until it is time to start the easier downhill trek back to the car. This is a wonderful tradition that I hope to someday share with my own child.

4. Example of Third Person Limited Point of View
Marie was feeling afraid and alone. She had woken up in the dark house early that morning. Her mother was usually at the fire stirring a pot of porridge or at least quietly banging around in the kitchen. Her older brother would usually be outside chopping kindling for mother or retrieving the eggs from the hens. This was usually done with much squawking and flapping of wings that it seemed like Tom must be trying to murder the whole henhouse.
Not this morning. All was silent and Marie felt herself sinking into the pallet she sat on, the edges of her vision were pulling in to pin-point. She felt hot and nauseous. Marie heard a whooshing sound closing in around her head and felt, from a distance, her body flop down onto her pallet.
“Marie…Marie.” A voice said from far away. “MARIE!” it said closer, more urgently. “You have to wake up! We need to go, now!” She knew that voice, it was Tom’s! Marie’s eyes fluttered open. She saw worry in her brother’s eyes. He pulled her to her feet and dragged her to the washbasin and splashed water on her face. “We have to go. Soldiers burned the town last night and it is no longer safe for us to be here. Mace Diggs came by early this morning, he was sent by Preacher Weaver, to tell us to run to the hills. Tom looked anxious, and then said, “Mother went to Aunt Emma’s to warn her. We are to meet Mother at the Cross-points marker this afternoon. So, there’s no time. We gotta go right now.”

5. Example of Third Person Omniscient Point of View
The space taxi, Moonstar, was slowly coming in to dock. Captain Briggs was peppering the throttle slowly in short bursts. He had an outward appearance of calm serenity but inside he was a coiled spring of anxiety. In his 20 years of piloting these crafts that shuttled passengers and supplies from one space station to another he had never had encountered a meteor shower that had popped up from nowhere. His min drifted back to the day he left space station 12. Yes, he had diligently read all the space reports for his flight path and there wasn’t a single mention of a meteor shower expected in the vicinity. Ripping his attention back to the docking, he skillfully maneuvered the Moonstar into position.
“Lt. Bloom, mind the connector link” he said calmly.
“Aye aye, Sir” replied Lt. Bloom.
He had hoped that his voice had not betrayed his stress. He had only been flying with the Captain for five months and his bi-annual report was due soon. Lt. Bloom respected Captain Briggs and hoped he had earned a high praise report from him. He captured the connector link in the ships external arm and placed the link into the small outer hole that housed the main systems charger. He called to Ensign Zimmer, “Check the system connection.”
“Aye aye, Sir. System connection is up and functioning. We are receiving full main frame charge and are ready to begin the Moonstar’s docking procedure!” exclaimed Ensign Zimmer. He couldn’t help keeping the flood of relief he felt out of his voice. The last three hours had been a stomach churning event. There were many times during and after the meteor shower that he had prayed and said his final goodbyes and well wishes to his loved ones.