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Point of view is exactly what is sounds like: the personal perspective of a given character or narrator. We have points of view, too. They're those things that sometimes get us into trouble when we start discussing politics over Christmas dinner.
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Thank you We sneak Every story whether it's about cats
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dogs cats dogs or even something that has nothing to
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do with cats or dogs has a certain point of
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view point of view is exactly what it sounds like
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the perspective from which the story is told whether that
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of a character or a narrator there are three general
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kinds of point of view first person second person and
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third person you should know that not unlike a pokemon
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gold star trading card The second person perspective is incredibly
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rare A second person story is told from the perspective
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of you the reader So unless you're reading and choose
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your own adventure book you're very unlikely to find the
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second person being used so third in first person are
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much more A first person story is told from the
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perspective of one of the characters which could be fun
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or terrifying As a reader we get to experience everything
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they experience not just sensory information but also all of
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their thoughts and emotions Because of that we really get
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to connect with this one character A third person story
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isn't told from the perspective of any particular character where
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just told what happens It might focus on a particular
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character and it might even reveal their thoughts and feelings
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but it isn't actually told from their perspective example time
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Check out this excerpt from the adventures of huckleberry finn
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by mark twain it was about doc now so i
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dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that
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hung over the bank and waited for the moon to
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grass I made fast to willow then i took a
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bat to eat and buy and buy laid down in
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the canoe to smoke a pop and lay out a
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plan of the continued use of eye We can tell
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that this is definitely being told from the first person
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In fact the entire book is told directly from the
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perspective of the character of huck finn which is interesting
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since he couldn't read or write He must have had
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a good transcriber but what if we wanted to make
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this a bit more like one of the harry potter
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books Those stories do follow harry's adventures but they're not
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actually told from his perspective that is there in third
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person so let's see what that text would look like
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in third person for one thing all of those eyes
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will have to go We'll probably have to lose a
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bit of hooks individual voice to stuff like it was
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about doc now and i made fast or took about
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to eat and by and by i laid down in
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the canoe definitely reflect huck's voice so they might not
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stick around and we're just describing the situation room a
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third person perspective It might end up looking something like
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this for mark twain will probably be rolling in his
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grave find by if another wants to get really fancy
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they might even use dual narratives Thes can either be
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first or third person but either way the story follows
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two particular characters showing the connections between their lives These
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stories can be really fun especially when they connect to
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separate characters in a way you've never expect like that
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One time you and your little brother accidentally bonded when
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the power went out and there was nothing else to
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do An example of a duel narrative can be found
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in a long walk to water This story is told
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from the perspectives of two sudanese children nian salva in
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different circumstances nias a young girl in a poor family
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who is unable to go to school instead she has
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to spend her days walking to the nearest water sources
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to get water for her family Soundly on the other
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hand is a young boy from a well respected family
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was a large farm He doesn't have to worry as
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much as me about what he'll have to eat or
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drink Lucky him However at the time of salvos narrative
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a civil war is raging in sudan and when his
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village is attacked he has to fleet Though these two
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kids come from very different backgrounds their perspective show us
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two kinds of hardships that we're faced in sudan giving
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us a deeper appreciation of how tough life was and
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is in that part of the world It certainly doesn't
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work is attempting travel for sure Let me tell you
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whether it's told in the first person second person or
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third person or even a dual narrative all stories have
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a point of view Our point of view is that 00:03:59.79 --> [endTime] up that's pretty cool See what we did there
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