Point Of View

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Point Of View

• Learning Different Perspectives

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First Person

• Narrator is a character in the story
• The reader is able to tell what the narrator is
  thinking
• The reader is unable to tell what other
  characters are thinking

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Second Person

• Narrator tells the story to another character
  using You
• The Story is being told through the addressee's
  point of view
• The reader is unable to tell what other
  characters are thinking

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Third Person

• The narrator is someone outside, or not connected
  to, the story
• The narrator may see the thoughts of one
  character but does not give their own opinions
• Majority of stories written this way

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Third Person Omniscient

• The narrator is someone outside, or not connected
  to, the story
• The narrator is able to see what all the
  characters are thinking but does not give their
  own opinion

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• What Point of View did Kurt Vonnegut use for his
  short story Harrison Bergeron?
• Be sure to
• Explain why Vonnegut used the particular Point of
  View
• How the Point of View effected the story
• Use examples from the text that illustrate your
  argument