Point of View and Perspective

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

Point of View and Perspective

Is there really a difference?

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

Point of view focuses on

• Who is telling the story?

• Who is speaking?

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

A first person narrator would use which pronouns?

• They, them, theirs

• I, me, my, mine, ours

• He, him, his, her, she, it

• You, we

Poll

Think about the books you have enjoyed reading the most. What is the most common point of view of those books?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person (Objective, Limited or Omniscient)

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.

Open Ended

In the The Three Little Pigs, a mean old wolf is trying to get the pigs by blowing down their houses. They find safety in the 3rd little pigs house made of brick, but the wolf decides to jump down the chimney. The pigs had a pot of boiling water on the fire , so the pig got burned and ran away and was never seen again. In this story, who is the antagonist (the "bad"guy)?

Let's check out a different perspective.. Listen to the following read aloud on the next slide (headphones needed)

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.