Narration and Point of View

1. Narration and Point of View
by
Jennifer Meyers
Cloe Hise
Melody Slawson
Caleb Simmons

2. Narration or who is telling the story?
First Person- “While I am telling you my story, remember I may not tell the whole
truth for I would not want you to think ill of me.”
Second Person- “You read a story and feel as if you are part of the journey.”
Third Person Objective- “Let me tell you a story as I heard it from a friend, I don’t
know everything that happened but I shall relate to you this tale.”
Third Person Subjective- “Let me tell you a story about a friend who was feeling
sad...I know some of what is occurring, along with some feelings but I don’t know it
all.

3. Third Person Omniscient- “I have seen all that has happened, and all that was. I shall
share it with you.”
Epistolary- “My dear friend Jane, I am writing to tell you of something new I learned.
I learned a new term about writing called Epistolary which means a story told in a
diary, letter, etc. All my best, Joe”

4. Narration “The Cask of Amontialldo”
● The reader finds out a little later in the story that
Montresor is the narrator.
● The reader knows right away that Montresor is an
unreliable narrator.
○ Montresor never describes the insults and injuries that
Fortunato gives him.
○ Montresor tells his tale of revenge rather smug, and wants
the reader to appreciate the cleverness of his trickery.

5. Narration vs The Cask
● Montresor is blinded by his hatred and want for
revenge against Fortunato.
○ “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose,
however, that gave utterance to a threat.”
○ “I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is
unredressed when retribution overtakes it’s redresser. It is
equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt
as such to him who has done the wrong.”

6. Narration: “A Rose for Emily”
First person narration:
• Unique perspective because the
narrator’s story is a collection of the
town’s voice.
• Uses “we”
• Appears to change perspective

7. the women mostly out of curiosity to see the
inside of her house, which no one save an old
man-servant – a combined gardener and
cook – had seen in at least ten years.
After her father's death
she went out very little;
after her sweetheart
went away, people
hardly saw her at all.
None of the young men
were quite good enough
for Miss Emily and such.

8. What is Point of View?
Simply put, point of view is the lens in which we read a story.
As stated earlier, the different types of point of view are first person, second person,
third person subjective, third person objective, third person omniscient, and
epistolary.
Point of view and narration are closely linked. Point of view determines what kind of
narrator the story will have. This, in turn, can cause the reader to trust the narrator
or be more weary of the narrator, as described earlier.

9. First person point of view:
Montresor is the narrator
We only see Montresor’s side of the story
We see everything that Montresor chooses
to tell us
Point of view in “The Cask of Amontillado”

10. Since Montresor’s goal is to kill
Fortunato, Montresor chooses to
describe Fortunato as a drunk and a
fool. Although he tricks Fortunato into
going to the crypt with him, Montresor
acts very concerned about Fortunato’s
health. To Fortunato, Montresor is
being a good friend, but the reader
knows that something bad is about to
happen. After all, “feel the nitre” is not
dissimilar from “look at the flowers.”

11. First Person POV - The Cask of Amontillado
What is first person POV?
First person POV is simply the view from one person using I, we, and me.
First person allows us to have a more personal connection into the happenings of
the story.
Having a more personal connection, though, does not insure the reliability of a
narrator.

12. Point of View - A Rose for Emily
We never truly know who our narrator is
A Rose for Emily, but we can determine
that our narration is from a third person
point of view.
(“A Rose for Emily”).

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