Point of View


Lesson 4  Assignment 1-4


Target


Assignment


Understand your purpose for reading


  • How do you react when you encounter a problem?
  • How does understanding other perspectives help you understand a story? 

In fiction, the story is told by the author who writes the story or the narrator who tells the story.
The point of view of a story refers to who tells the story and how the story is told.

Studying point of view helps to understand

  • how we are affected by the narrator's thoughts and actions
  • how point of view affects our responses to characters
  • how much we can trust the narrator