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My Father Was A St. Bernard Monologue

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This story is being narrated from 1st person point of view. The speaker has limited knowledge of others and only knows about what he has experienced.This is showed in the passage “My father was a St.Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am presbyterian”. The language used in this passage includes words like I and my. These pronouns are only used to describe others in stories that are first person.

The narrator in this story is a dog and they are a minor character observing the action for the most part. “He was never expecting this but thought he would catch her; so when she told him, he was the one that looked ashamed, whereas he had thought it was going to be she”. This is an example where the narrator plays no part in the action and is observing it. It is clear with the pronouns that are used that the narrator is not involved. These are the ways that the narrator is a minor character.

The narration is not third person omniscient. In this story the …show more content…

“But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn’t any to see”. The narrator knows this because of their actions not because it is all knowing. Throughout the story the emotions of others is shown through facial expressions throughout the story. This is how we know that the story is 1st person.

No the point of view in this story does not change. In the beginning of the story it starts off with pronouns such as I. At the end of the story all of the same pronouns are being used throughout the story. “So, as you see, there was more to her than her education”. Even at the end of the story limited point of view is used to talk about another character. The point of view never changes in this

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