Point of View

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Point of View

• The vantage point from which events are presented

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Types of Narrators

• First person may tell own story or someone
  elses. But beware! The first-person narrator
  never knows the full story.
• Omniscient narrator knows everything, and moves
  from one characters mind to another.
• Objective the point of view remains entirely
  outside the characters mind. Readers have to
  interpret characters thoughts or attitudes on
  their own.

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Unreliable Narrators

• Definition a first-person narrator whose
  perspective is self-serving, mistaken, confused,
  unstable, or even insane.
• Cask of Amontillado narrator is manipulative and
  deceives even himself.
• Rose for Emily narrator is confused, and has
  been indoctrinated by his own societys
  assumptions.

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Limited Omniscient

• Definition a third-person narration that focuses
  only on a single characters perspective. You can
  see inside the mind of that character, but no
  other character.
• Example Young Goodman Brown