Point of View and Perspective

Perspective in Literature
What is it and how does it affect the story?

Poll

What do you see? What's your perspective?

• Duck

• Rabbit

Poll

What do you see? What's your perspective?

• young woman facing away

• profile of an older woman

Perspective is how the characters view and process what's happening within the story.

*How does the narrator perceive what's happening in the story?

*What is their attitude about it?

Multiple Choice

Perspective in literature is____, while point of view in literature is ___.

• who is speaking or telling the story/how a character views and processes what is happening

• They are exactly the same

• how a character views and processes what is happening/who is speaking or telling the story

Character perspective

No matter the point of view (POV), perspective can help define characters' attitudes and personalities.

In real life, everyone's perspective is different. You may have four people at one event, but each person comes away with a unique set of experiences or observations based on their life experiences and identities.

In literature, the story changes depending on who tells it. That's perspective.

Let's look at a familiar story

from a familiar perspective.

Let's check out a different perspective. The wolf's! Turn your attention to the board.

Multiple Choice

What was the point of view?

• First person

• Second person

• Third Person

Multiple Choice

Why did the wolf say he was going to the pigs' houses?

• To eat them

• To deliver some cookies

• To borrow a cup of sugar

• To blow down their houses

Open Ended

Describe how the story changed when told from the perspective of the wolf.