Point Of View Story Notes

Characters:

Part 1:

Persons opinion or perspective: The way in which a person sees the world.

Part 2: Story Point Of View

1. Who is telling the story?

2. Who are they telling the story to?

3. What form are they telling the story in?

4. At what distance are they telling the story?

First Person: The main character is telling the story. They refer to themselves as " I "

1. Internal Narrator: The narrator is in the middle of the story

2. Porthole Narrator: The narrator is watching the story

Text: Diaries

Second Person: The author is talking to the audience. The author refers to the audience/reader as " You"

Third Person: Author tells the story. They refer their characters as: (She, He. It, They )

Optintion: The Author is pretty much God (ex: knows what every character is thinking, feeling, or stereos)

Limited Optintion: The author as some part but not total freedom of telling the story. ( ex: knows only a few characters feelings, thoughts, or stereos)

Objective: The author can tell what they experience externally (ex: smell, taste, feel, see, hear)

Part 3: Inform: shape of story

1. Letter Story

2. Dream Story

3. Narrative Story

Part 4: Distance: Such as time, emotional distance, word choice

Audience:

1. Character: Telling the story to someone else

2. Yourself: when the main character is writing to itself (ex: diary, letter)