Analyze point of view

Author's write in first person to

• give an extremely rich sensory experience

• limit the perspective to one character

• understand a protagonist's motives or actions

• give the most objective and trustworthy view

Author's write in third person omniscient most of view to

• create a specific world view

• understand the protagonist's motives or actions

• limit the readers perspective to one character

• give the most objective and trustworthy point of view

Then all the doors of the houses opened simultaneously, and out came women like a row of paper dolls. The print of these dresses was different, but they all gave the appearance of being the same.

• Immediate emotional appeal

• easy to give supporting details

• Know the mind of one person

• Understand protagonist’s motives or

  actions

“I don’t know. Anywhere. Back to the hill. Back to Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. I don’t like this.”

• immediate emotional appeal

• easy to give supporting details

• know the mind of one person

• understand protagonist's motives or actions

“It has to belong to somebody,” Mrs. Price keeps saying, but nobody can remember. “

• most objective and trustworthy

• Understand protagonist’s motives or actions

• character development

• clear hero

“That’s not, I don’t, you’re not . . Not mine,” I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four.

• most objective and trustworthy

• understand protagonist's motives or actions

• character development

• clear hero

“I really couldn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about – good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs – “

• most objective and trustworthy

• understand protagonist's motives or actions

• character development

• clear hero

“Mama sighed and stared out across the plowed field to the sloping pasture land. “I’m feeling scared, David” she said.

• most objective and trustworthy

• understand protagonist's motives or actions

• character development

• clear hero

He seemed to be waiting for something, and I secretly hoped that whatever that something was, it would never come so that he would not leave.

• most objective and trustworthy

• understand protagonist's motives or actions

• character development

• clear hero

Author's write in first person point of view to create a

• clear hero

• rich sensory experience

• trustworthy view

• heartwarming view