Point Of resentation by Yesim Ergin & Pati Haima View

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Different types of narrators

First-person narrator (I-narrator) Second-person narrator Third-person narrators

third-person objective / observer narrator third-person limited third-person omniscient

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First-person narrator

subjective own / someone elses story only own thoughts, feelings, opinions

creates sympathy reader is intimate with narrator

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Example

(1st person narrator)

Both my wife and daughter think I'm

this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is but I know I didn't always feel this... Sedated.

Beauty,

Lester Burnham

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American

Second-person narrator

subjective addresses reader includes reader (he/she is involved) mostly appears in speeches, letters and in step by-step instructions reader imagines himself within the

action
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Example

(2nd person narrator)

The first light in youruniverse brings pain

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Objective narrator

events & characters (only what can be seen or heard) No feelings, thoughts

reader gets greater sense of objectivity, but feels more distance

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Example

(objective narrator)

The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and notrees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. [] It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went on to Madrid. "What should we drink?" the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. 5/4/12 "It's pretty hot," the man said. "Let's drink

Limited third-person narrator

Objective Tells story Feelings & thoughts of ONE character

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Example

(limited narrator)

There was going to be a spring dance down at the school and he thought a lot about asking her to go.. One day a few weeks before the dance he spent an hour talking with her about a number of things which didnt matter at all. Would you like to go to the dance with me? he said finally. She started to talk about something else. Then he felt flustered, and ruffled, and bothered, by this ploy or stratagem or 5/4/12 whatever it was.

Omniscient third-person narrator

Very objective Knows all events, feelings & thoughts of more than one character (knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE)

panoramic view of the world, looks into many characters & into the broader 5/4/12 background of the story

Example

(omniscient narrator)

John stood next to his grandmother. He wanted to help her down the stairs. Mrs. Smith looked at her grandson, her blue eyes sharp, and moved a strand of hair from her face. She was determined to do this on her own, to prove she wasn't an helpless old lady . . .

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TASK

Name the kind of narrators point of view in each of the three parts! Why did the author use this type of narrator?

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Moby Dick Herman Melville

first-person narrator

pronoun I used tells his own story his feelings are mentioned I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

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Growing Rich Fay Weldon

limited third-person narrator

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The Horse Whisper Nicholas Evans

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