Using Different Points Of View In The Bone Sparrow By Subhi

Another technique used in the documentary to challenge the viewers’ assumptions was the use of narration to present facts about the refugee situation. These facts and figures give the viewers a truthful and realistic picture of the situation. Some beliefs that exist in Australian society are that we are taking in too many refugees; they are criminals, they are taking over Australia, using Australian tax payers’ money and changing our culture. However, we are presented with facts and figures that change our assumptions. For example, more than 30 million people have fled their homes with nothing but the clothes they wear, boat smugglers charge up to and over $10, 000 US dollars, 13, 000 refugees are accepted annually only 2,000 of those refugees arrive by boat. Despite what many people think, like Raye who believed refugees in Australia are “handed everything on a gold platter,” life in detention centres is hard. In Villawood Detention Centre, over 9 months, three detainees committed suicide and 18 caused self-harm.

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.

Sean Covey an author and motivational speaker once stated, “Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.” Authors like Sean Covey understand the power of point of view and use it to help the readers to relate to the characters in stories. For instance, Sandra Cisneros in her short story “Eleven” and O. Henry in his short story “The Skylight Room” effectively utilize more than one point of view in their stories to connect the readers with the characters. In “Eleven” Rachel, a young girl, describes how her teacher forced her to wear somebody else’s sweater on her birthday. Through the application of first and second person point of view, Cisneros creates in the readers a feeling of sympathy for Rachel. Likewise in “The Skylight Room” O. Henry uses first and second point of view to help the reader understand the difficulties of Miss Elise Leeson, who slowly starves as she struggles to earn enough money to pay for her little room. Also, O. Henry writes in third person point of view in order to make his facts and information believable. Both Cisneros and O. Henry write in first and second person point of view to draw the readers into the story and connect them to the characters; however, O. Henry includes third person point of view in order to make it more reliable than Cisneros’s story.

Point of view is a literary device whose importance is often overlooked. The point of view in which a story is told in has a critical impact on how the story is comprehended. In The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, the short story is told in third person omniscient. This point of view allows readers to go into the minds and thoughts of all characters in the story. Each character the author uses, has an important role in plot development as well as giving insight on some background history of the main characters. The third person omniscient point of view gives readers more knowledge about the story as a whole than other points of view. Author Stephen Crane uses point of view to give background information on the main character, Jack Potter. “Oh, he’s the town policeman. He goes out and fights Scratchy when he starts acting this way.”(21) Readers learn that one of the main characters, Jack, was the town policeman, and that fighting Scratchy wasn’t a rare task. Reader can assume that being the only policeman in town, Jack has some level of authority over the rest of the town’s citizen. When talking about Jack’s influence on Yellow Sky, the author described him as a

Another important stakeholder in this issue is the children themselves. Almost all of the children present in detention centres are asylum seekers whom arrived in Australia by boat, and are classified as ‘unauthorised maritime arrivals’ (Humanrights.gov.au, 2015). These asylum seeker children all held the same responses to some degree. Their responses were all surrounded by the main aspect of ‘Wanting to be free and safe’.

The narrator is writing that he is writing himself in the story. The goodmark for using the first person point of view is to understand fully about the main character’s feeling “A sudden impulse made me enter. A man was sitting with his back towards me…”. And a realistic feeling that only can use the narrator’s voice to express is “Then a cold shudder ran down my spine.”. The way is being used this can make the most trust from the reader. They may understand fluently how scared the inscription is, if someone predict and tell you the exact date for your birth and death but you’ve never met before. The first person point of view also helped the story more personal to the reader. This made the story more enjoyable, because at the end of the story the feeling of suspense is greater, and the reader can have the different view that is hoping the main character would not be killed. And the last description of the narrator can create the horror ending for himself “I am writing this at a shaky table before the open window. The leg is cracked, and Atkinson, who seems a handy man with his tools, is going to mend it as soon as he has finished putting an edge on his chisel. It is after eleven now. I shall be gone in less than an hour.”. This opens a suspensive ending for the story. The first person view gave the reader more comprehension of the story, made it more enjoyable, more honest feelings, and

First person narrative expresses a point of view giving the greatest sense of identity of the character. People are all different. Different colours, religions, different morals and beliefs, and maybe most important different perspectives on the world. In both The Catcher in the Rye & in The Kite Runner the male protagonist tells the course of events from their perspective, and their role as narrator has a significant impact on the novels

A survey was conducted by the Australian Human Rights Commission asking parents and children to use three words to describe the experience of detention. Out of all the option they could have chosen not one person said a nice thing about the

To see the world in which characters live in more clearly, it is crucial to first determine the point of view the author has given us. We often see our stories through four different viewpoints: omniscient (a type of third-person point of view, as told by a narrator with unlimited information), third-person limited (focusing on the viewpoint of one character, but has the capability to move inside and outside the sole character), first-person (a single character telling the story), or objective (simply what is seen and heard without commenting or interpreting anything said or done) (Arp 253-257). Upon discovering what viewpoint the author has decided to write in, readers have a clearer idea of not only understanding the story, but evaluating

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.

“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.

* Portrays emotions surrounding the experience of migrants in detainment after their arrival in Australia.

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

Point of View: Who is telling the story? 1st person....I saw the car....I did. 2nd person.....he/she/it....most novels. 3rd person: Omniscient-know feelings of the character...god like narrator...italic parts of the novel.

Rikki's point of view is first person this lets the reader know what Rikki thinking at that moment. Rikki’s thoughts are important to the story because due to first person the reader can know what Rikki will do or what he is thinking to do. Although the story is mostly third person first person let’s you understand Rikki’s point of view.