![]() This fable isn’t usually told from the wolf’s point of view. When he gets to the brick house, the wolf can’t blow it down, so he slips down the chimney and ends up in a vat of boiling water. The wolf huffs and puffs and destroys the first two houses and eats the pigs. Each pig builds a house: one of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks. You are probably familiar with the story "The Three Little Pigs." Three pigs go into the world to seek their fortunes, and they encounter the Big Bad Wolf, who would love nothing more than to eat the little pigs. Let’s use a familiar story to help you think about the importance of understanding point of view. As the reader, you need to determine whether you are getting the whole story and what might be missing from the narrator’s account. ![]() While first-person point of view is easy to recognize, it’s important to remember that just like the scenario from the introduction to this lesson, the narrator is only including details that he or she experienced firsthand. The narrator uses phrases like I saw, I feel, I heard, and so on. The reader experiences the story through the eyes, ears, thoughts, and feelings of the narrator. Now, watch this video with an overview of first- and third-person points of view.įirst-person stories are told from the point of view of the narrator. In this lesson, you will learn to analyze fiction told from the first-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient points of view. The details they include are decided by the point of view they use. Authors choose a point of view from which to tell their stories. You each could only include details from the parts of the carnival you actually experienced. Your classmate and you each told stories of your weekend from the first-person point of view. Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told. As you talk, you realize that it seems like you weren’t even at the same carnival! It seems that way because you are each sharing your experiences from your own point of view. She tells you how easy it was for her to beat the new games on the midway, and you tell her how scary the new rollercoaster was. On Monday, you return to school and compare notes about your weekends. Your classmate went because she is very good at carnival games and wanted to add to her prize collection. You went because you love carnival rides, the scarier the better. One of your classmates also went to the carnival at the same time. Imagine that you went to a carnival on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. ![]() You may have heard the expression “There are two sides to every story.” This expression means that two people don’t usually see the same thing the same way.
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