Exploring the Point of View

In the third person, the author or the narrator of the story stays outside the events happening in the story

- Pria

Have you read a book and wondered from whose eyes you have been walking through? Point of View will tell you who is the narrator and his or her relationship with the characters in the story.

In Storytelling, first thing is to decide the point of view that the story will take. Whether it will be in the first person, second person, or third person point of view. With first and third-person used more frequently, the second person point of view is used less frequently but still, it is being taught in writing classes.

The differences between the first person and third-person point of view are many. How do you identify which one is the story using? The pronouns come into play when you need to know from whose perspective the story is being told.

The pronouns I, we are first-person and refer to the author himself. The pronoun 'you, which is used for both singular and plural antecedents, depicts the usage of the second person point of view. Lastly the pronouns he, she, refer to the usage of third-person point of view. You can easily identify a narrative and classify them as first person, second person, or third person based on the pronouns used.

FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW

In the first-person point of view, the narrator or the author is writing the story from his own independent perspective. You will see the pronouns I (or we if the author is a group of people or representing a group or a team).