Author’s Viewpoint

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Authors Viewpoint
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What is it?

• Imagine the author sitting in front of a blank
  computer screen. The authors viewpoint is the
  very reason the author types anything at all on
  his/her computer!
• It is the big WHY question about life that the
  author is trying to answer for you!
• For example

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Why did Aesop write the fable about the tortoise
and the hare?
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• He wanted you to know that success in life isnt
  only what youre good at. Its also steadily
  working toward your goal without getting off
  track that helps you succeed!

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Why did Dav Pilkey write the Captain Underpants
series?
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• To entertain us, of course!

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Why did Robert D. Ballard write Finding the
Titanic?
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• To give us information about the Titanics
  fateful journey!

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So how do we know what the authors viewpoint is,
anyway (and why should we care?)
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• If we figure out the authors views, we can
  understand what he/she wrote!
• Of course!

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The Authors Language.

• The words the author uses gives us clues about
  how the author feels about lifes issues!
• For example, if the author was describing America
  using words like honor, cherish, treasure, and
  proudwe can infer (infer means piece the clues
  together) that the authors viewpoint about
  America is

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• A good place to live and a great nation to be a
  part of!

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• If an author used the following words to describe
  the beach cold, bitter wind, nauseating smell of
  fish, shrieking seagullswe can infer (piece the
  clues together, remember?) that the authors view
  about life at the beach is

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• An awful, cruddy way to spend vacation!

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The storys illustrations

• Use the pictures that are in your story as clues
  of the authors views about life. For example,
  in a story about factories, if you saw pictures
  like these, what would you infer (put the pieces
  together, you know?) about the authors views
  about factories?

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In Conclusion

• The authors viewpoint tells us why the author
  bothered to write the story in the first place.
• It is the authors view about life.
• You can tell what the authors viewpoint is by
  looking at the words he/she used.
• You can use the illustrations to figure out the
  authors viewpoint.

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Now ITS YOUR TURNYAY!!!

• Use the authors viewpoint organizer (page 32)
  and the story you read in your anthology to
  figure our your storys authors viewpoint!