Part 1
1. Read the lecture below
2. Respond to this post by stating the title of your book and the point of view in which it is written.
Part 2
1.Using your core literature selection, write one question for your classmates to answer concerning imagery, theme, or symbolism.
2. Answer one question posted by a classmate.
Definition of Point of View
All literature must be narrated or recorded by someone, and an author must decide who that someone will be. The decision is an important one, since the selection of narrator determines the perspective, or point of view, from which the story will be told, as well as the amount and kind of information a reader will be given. In discussing literature, it is most common to examine three different points of view.
________________________________________
First Person: A character in the story who speaks in the first person voice.
The first person narrator is a character in the story who can reveal his or her feelings and thoughts, or information that has been directly received by other characters. The first person narrator speaks in the first person, saying "I saw...," "I knew...," "I realized...," etc. The House on Mango Street, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill A Mockingbird are examples of books that tell a story from the first person point of view.
________________________________________
Third Person Objective: A narrator, not a character in the story, speaks in the third person voice and can tell only what, is observable through the five senses.
The third person objective narrator is not a character in the story: the reader would most often think of this narrator as "the author." The third person objective narrator refers to all characters in the third person, saying "He looked..." "She jumped...," etc. They are only able to make objective observations, however: they have no knowledge of what is going on in the mind of the characters, or anything else that would not be observable to the reader if they were to enter the story. Of Mice and Men is told from the third person objective point of view.
________________________________________
Third Person Omniscient: A narrator, not a character in the story, who speaks in the third person voice and can tell the thoughts and feelings of characters within the story.
Like the third person objective narrator, the third person omniscient narrator speaks in the third person and is not a character in the story. Unlike the third person objective narrator, however, the third person omniscient narrator has knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of characters in the story. The extent of this knowledge may vary somewhat, but it is more than would be observable to the reader, were they to enter the story. The Hobbit, The Scarlet Letter, and The Old Man and the Sea are books that tell a story from the third person omniscient point of view.
3 comments:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is written from the first-person perspective.
When thinking about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what imagery comes to mind?
I too read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and it is written in first person.
When I think about this novel's imagery, what comes immediately to my mind is the fact that Mark Twain doesn't intentionally use too much of it. Yes, figurative language is a powerful tool and is important when writing, but Twain declared his independence of "literature and all that bosh," (I love our history book...) and what comes out is this real and raw voice of a boy who has gone through trails many grown men never go through. Twain writes as a honest, young boy as the way he would talk and think, and he didn't worry about specific times he'd use personification or alliteration. The way he describes his surroundings is beautiful and sincere, and doesn't follow a specific pattern of set standard. That, I think, is my favorite thing I love about Twain's works.
What is the main theme we see through Huck's journey of growing up through the story?
The Great Gatsby is written in the first person.
The West Egg and the East Egg represent the diffences between old money and new money. Why do you think that in the 1920's such importance and distinction was made between the two?
Post a Comment