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Story Of An Hour: An Example Of First Person Narration

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1. This story was told in the first person view point. You can find this evidence in sentences 1 and 2. For example: "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian" you can see he used "I" and "My" as if he was there character who was speaking. Another example: "This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself" again the narrator used words like "Me", "My", and "I" insinuating that he the narrator who is the one who is speaking from a first person view point. So, that's the view point from which the narrator was speaking from.
2. The first person narrator is a minor character. The first person is a minor character is a minor character because the major character is the minor character's mom. For example: "My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education" so from the start the narrator started talked about his mother and things she did. Another example is after that sentence(the one above) the narrator said " But, indeed, it was not real education; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining-room and drawing room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sunday-school and listening there; and …show more content…

Yes there is a view point change. The view point change started in the fourth sentence of the first paragraph. The first three sentence were in a first person view point. The first three sentences said "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing". and that was from first person view point. Then in the fourth sentence the author wrote " My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education." and that's when the view point

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