April 10, 2014

Fiction Writing Blog Assignment #7 - Point of View



Okay, so for this assignment we have to talk about point of view.

Point of view is basically the perspective from which a story is told. There are two points of view that are the most often used and one that is rarely used.

The two points of view that are used most are:

First person
A story using this point of view is told by the main character or protagonist. It often uses the pronouns "I", "me", "we", "my", "mine", "ours", and so on and so forth.

Third person
A story using this point of view is told either by someone close to the main character or by an omniscient narrator. The main character is referred to by his/her name or using pronouns like "he", "she", "they"... you get the idea.

Now the least used point of view is one that I'm sure most people haven't read since they were kids. Well if you don't read self help books that is.

Second person
A story using second person point of view uses the pronoun "you" to make the reader the main character. Some of the best known examples of this are Choose your own adventure stories. One of my favorite books that used second person view when I was a kids was this book:


Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this blog. I mean, how couldn't you enjoy it? There's a picture of a monkey wearing a lab coat and mixing chemicals in front of you.