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• Most popular point of view types in stories
• Select your viewpoint character with care
• Streamline writing by cutting perception fallacy
• Avoid shifting point of view in your story
• Create intimacy with narrator via first-person
• When to use first-person minor in stories
• Types of third-person point of views
• Use third–person limited for greater clarity
• Rotate third-person limited to avoid issues
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A popular third-person point of view in fiction is third-person objective. This occurs when a narrator outside of the story tells what occurs without giving the characters’ internal thoughts, opinions or feelings.
Consider the following passage, written in third-person objective:
The valley below them stretched deep and black. On the ridge above was only scrub and rock with a stout, teetering stone wall at the edge. The sun rising behind the ridge had just begun to warm the wall and lift the shadows from the valley. The Californian and the girl with him sat on the wall where it remained upright, where rain and wind had yet to erode the granite at the ridge’s edge. In a half-hour, light would fully wash the dark from the valley, allowing the small river running through it to be seen.
“Want a cigarette?” the girl asked. She opened her macrame satchel that sat between them.
The Californian fished a lighter from his pocket. “Sure.”
Notice how the passage utilizes an uninvolved narrator who is unnecessary to the progression of the plot. The narrator is not a character in the story and merely tells what happened. The narrator’s viewpoint is that of a camera on a wall relaying pictures of the scene.
Because of this, the narrator only states the observable actions and dialogue but not what is going on inside the characters’ minds. We have no idea what the characters are thinking as they watch the shadow rise over the valley or what they feel about one another. Their internal thoughts and emotions are only inferred or spoken aloud.
The advantage of third-person objective is that the dehumanized narrator delivers an unbiased, neutral telling of the story. This “just the facts, ma’am” approach allows readers to make their own decisions about the ethics of the characters’ behavior without the taint of the narrator’s emotions, The disadvantage is that an emotional distance exists between the reader and the story’s characters. This can prevent readers from identifying with and liking characters.
An excellent example of third-person objective in literature is Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants.”
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• Use third–person limited for greater clarity
• Rotate third-person limited to avoid issues
• Types of third-person point of views
• Select your viewpoint character with care
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• What is point of view in a story?
• Heighten tension with consistent point of view
• Most popular point of view types in stories
• Create intimacy with narrator via first-person
• When to use first-person minor in stories
• Use third–person limited for greater clarity
• Rotate third-person limited to avoid issues
• Types of third-person point of views
• Select your viewpoint character with care
• Avoid shifting point of view in your story
• Streamline writing by cutting perception fallacy
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Among the lesser used yet most powerful of point of views is first-person minor. This point of view occurs when the narrator is in the story but is not the protagonist. It can be identified by the use of I/me. It sometimes is referred to as first-person peripheral.
Several famous novels and stories have been told in first-person minor. Perhaps among the most famous of them are Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
First-person minor ought to be used whenever the author wants to:
• Provide a clear perspective about what has occurred because the protagonist is incapable of doing so. This usually is the case when the protagonist doesn’t grow or develop over the course of the story, though the narrator does or the reader will.
• Hide what’s going on inside the character’s head. This usually is done to keep some secret about him or to create an aura of coolness.
• Utilize a protagonist that is difficult for readers to relate to. This would be the case with an extremely alien character in a science fiction story.
• Kill the protagonist at the end of the story. Because of this, the main character can’t narrate what occurred as he’s dead, unless the story is written in present tense.
Of course, there are many instances when the author wouldn’t want to use first-person minor:
• When the protagonist grows and develops, getting inside his heads allows the reader to join him on that journey.
• If an intimate experience with the protagonist is required of the reader, then a minor viewpoint diminishes it. This is particularly true when the main character bucks society’s cherished values; intimacy can help the reader better understand why he takes that position and the resulting decisions he makes.
• Should the story be theme-oriented, then experiencing the world through the protagonist could help drive home that message. This sometimes is done in science fiction and fantasy tales.
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