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A) Analyze each story assigned for this module in terms of POV and perspective. (All of these stories are written in 1st person POV, but the writer's choice of narrator (perspective) necessarily affects the story being told.) Your analysis should address why you think each author made the choices s/he made in terms of pov, perspective, character centrality, and temporal distance. (What motive/stake does the character seem to have in telling the story? How does it affect him/her? To what degree is the story about the narrating character vs. about someone/something else? If the story seems to be about someone else, what is revealed about that character and the narrating character by the narrator's choices in which information to share?)
B) Pick one story and imagine at least two changes (in terms of pov, perspective, character centrality, or temporal distance)--determine how the changes might affect the story in question. What might we gain? Lose? How would this affect other elements of the story and the reader's experience overall?
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Point of View
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POINT OF VIEW
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Point of View
A) Analyze each story assigned for this module in terms of POV and perspective. (All of
these stories are written in 1st person POV, but the writer's choice of narrator
(perspective) necessarily affects the story being told.) Your analysis should address why
you think each author made the choices s/he made in terms of pov, perspective, character
centrality, and temporal distance. (What motive/stake does the character seem to have in
telling the story? How does it affect him/her? To what degree is the story about the narrating
character vs. about someone/something else? If the story seems to be about someone else, what
is revealed about that character and the narrating character by the narrator's choices in
which information to share?)
In Julie Orringer’s story “Pilgrims” the author uses Ella’s point of view to help
understand the narrative form a child’s perspective. Contrary to the adult understanding of
cancer, the gravity of it is found in the victim who is usually undergoing painful and challenging
period. In this story, the author treats the audience to a different perspective, based on a child’s
point of view. This allows the audience to understand the difficulties and challenges children
undergo when their parents are ailing from life-long conditions. In using Ella’s point of view, the
author changes the focus of the story form the gravity of the condition, to state of the children in
this challenging period.
In “half-skinned steer” Mero is the main character, and the author uses a third person
character, to guide Mero’s thought in retelling the narrative. This allows the audience to
understand the backdrop upon which Mero finds himself in. It provides for the audience the point
of view that allows for the understanding that drives Mero to behave the way he does.
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