6Swimming Lessons - Rohinton Mistry PDF

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2300a, Prose Fiction, Spring 2014, Scott...

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Points of View By identifying point of view, you are identifying who is talking. You are not hearing author’s voice, but the narrator. Depending on the type of point of view, it depend whose character thoughts you have access to. Typically identifies the stance and identity; the eyes and mind becomes our we year the narration from. First Person. Can be from a major or minor character. Narrator bias is an issue with first person, as there’s different the story, and perspective is an important element. You get on of what happened, and therefore, should be careful with this b shares the virtues and limitations of third person. The charact only relate what they experience directly. However, you do get view of who this character is. First person is a character who narrator. Intrusive narrator; this is when the narrator steps outsid narrative, and speaks directly to the reader. Was very c in the 19th century. Third Person Omniscient The all-knowing narrator; they are not a character. It is a voice into everybody’s head, and is not limited by time or space. Th narrator is free to go wherever it needs to, and tells the reade that character is feeling and doing. Third Person Limited Narrator that is not a characters. It has access to the thought some of the characters, and not all. It filters what the characte feeling, thinking acting, doing, etc. The narrator tends to make comments about what the characters are doing. Third charac a lens. Objective (Fly on the wall) A narrator recoding what is happening through actions and sp doe snot have access to any characters thoughts. It just repo is seen and heard. It can give more than one perspective. Stream of Consciousness A variant of third person. It is the random thoughts going thro characters head. It is the narrator peering into one characters and relating what it going on. It tends to not follow a linear pa often at the outset does not make whole lot of sense. It keys psychological, over the logical. This is not first person. Innocent Eye An innocent character that acts as the narrator. Usually this is...