Perspective

Point of view is one of the literary devices that allows authors to accomplish this purpose. The point of view is the manner in which an author interacts with his/her literary world. It provides a creative avenue for skillful readers to capture and direct the attention of the reader to particular emotions, details, and opinions. Thus, the point of view is simply an angle of considering things as embodies with the manner in which the author narrates a story. This paper provides a clear and concise analysis of the short story Brownies by ZZ packer with particular focus on the point of

In conclusion, narrative point of view can challenge, influence and change perspective, and express a perspective that is different to my own way of seeing the world by using characters, language and setting. The Bone Sparrow changed and shape my own personal

Point of view is important in any novel. It allows readers to see and understand the events and characters in a novel. Depending on who is speaking, point of view can drive the plot and convey the thoughts of the characters in a story. In the novel, The Brief Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, point of view plays a crucial role in narrating the life of the lonesome outsider, Oscar. The novel is narrated in first person, but Diaz chooses to disclose who the speaker is until later in the book. As the story progresses, there are clues that hint to the reader who the outside source narrating Oscars life is. Diaz uses Yunior to narrate a majority of the novel. This point of view lets the readers understand the Dominican culture through Yunior’s commentary and perspective. It also gives an outside perspective on Oscar which helps build Oscar as a character. Instead of using an omniscient third person or generic first person point of view, Diaz uses multiple characters to narrate the story. This ingenious idea gave the story a more personal and up close look at not only the life of Oscar, but also the lives of his sister, Lola, and his mother, Beli.

Changing perspectives is defined as the change of how an individual sees something or someone. Melina Marchetta uses changing perspectives in a variety of ways in her novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, highlighting that change is a lifelong process because no one is ever completely mature or knowledgeable, and that it can be unexpected and subtle or gradual and natural. Marchetta demonstrates this concept of change through her characters and certain events, experiences, perspectives and people they associate with. She enables readers to develop their own perspectives of each character as they mature and change by using literary techniques to intrigue the audience and provoke thought about the changing perspectives of the characters.

The different points of view give an understanding of the relationship the protagonists are to their victims.

Authors use point of view to send a message. Using different forms of point-of-view sends different messages to the reader. By using point of view effectively, authors can invoke different feelings, emotions, and thoughts in a reader. In The Man from Mars, Margaret Atwood uses the third-person limited point of view to create the feeling of ambiguity seen throughout the short story. This point of view allows the reader to feel the same sense of mystery, danger, and fear that the main protagonist, Christine, feels towards the strange man stalking her. Because of the point of view, the story has this impact. If told from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person omniscient point of view, the story would be vastly different. By using the 3rd person limited point of view in The Man from Mars, Margaret Atwood allows the reader to feel same sense of mystery that the main character feels while also getting in touch with Christine's inner thoughts.

In Legend, perspective builds suspense by abruptly cutting off a character and switching to the other. For example “The captain lifts his gun and points it at my mother. Then he shoots her in the head. “ page 157, This quote is in Day’s Perspective. He was accompanying a girl that worked as a soldier for the government ( he did not know about this ), she ends up finding out after a series of events that the boy is Day, the same boy that killed her brother, and she guides him right into a trap.

An authors use of point of view can help to show a character's transformation throughout a story. In the story "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gorgon who's the protagonist lacks intelligence and has the opportunity to get an operation that could make him smarter. Similarly, there is a mouse named Algernon who has already had the operation and has shown an increase in intelligence. Charlie decided to get the operation to become smart. This story is Charlie's personal account of what happened and what he felt before and after the operation. Daniel Keyes used Charlie's point of view to reveal his transformation by including his mental ability and his understanding of his community.

Writing from different viewpoints allows the author, Tim O’Brien, to express himself in a more comfortable manner. Written in this viewpoint, the story is read as a tale instead of an autobiography and the author becomes more distant with the story like he is looking into it rather than writing it.

Throughout this piece, the author shows the reader the perspective of several characters as they

“The world changes when we change our perspective.” If two people watch the same event,they may have two different versions of what happened. A person’s point of view or perspective is influenced by many different factors and can help shape a story. In the stories Canyons by Gary Paulsen and “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen the authors use dialogue to develop the characters perspective.

There are many elements that contribute to the effectiveness of a piece of writing. One element in particular that adds to how effective a piece of writing can be is point of view, which can determine what the reader knows and understands, and how the information given is interpreted. As a result, point of view contributes to character development and the emotional impact of a piece of writing. Marjane Satrapi utilizes the impact that point of view has in her graphic novel Persepolis. The story, which is written as a memoir, includes Marjane herself in the images, which makes the text seem to be told from more of a limited third person point of view, while the narration of the story is told in the first person. By including herself in the

In addition to that, in The Cather in the Rye, it states “She had a big nose, and she had on those glasses with sort of iron rims that aren’t too attractive, but she had a helluva face.” (Salinger 196) This clearly shows that the perspective of a different character gives the reader a better idea what a character is like. To sum up, characters are one of the main ways on how the author uses different perspectives with in a

Unit 8 Essay When reading various amounts of works by other people you will experience different types and genres of writings. When you read different genres of, it may change your point of view (POV). Even reading the same story in a different genre it may change your POV. POVs and genres change how you interpret things through trifles, POV standpoints, and mood of genres.

Perspectives are a key aspect that we all have and it is usually somewhat different from others perspectives. Perspectives are necessary in many types of stories, it allows people to see thing from a different point of view. Tom says in his lecture, “ Every story has other sides, and every story besit other stories.” For example we can take a look at how the universe was created. Both science and religion have different views of what created the universe and some, like Guy Consolmagno, use science to understand religion. Even native americans had many different views of what created the earth.