Point of View

The narrator is an all-knowing observer who can relate what more than one character thinks and feels

The sound of traffic filled the street. I pressed the doorbell again. I wondered if the button worked. Could the person inside hear the sound of the buzzer over the traffic noises? Were they even home? I decided that it didn't matter. I che

Jeremiah squinted from the sun. He was thinking about the game. They could have won. He could have won the game for them. All he needed to do was catch the ball, but he didn't. He dropped it. His coach talked to him. "Jeremiah, we had a gre

The family swam towards shore as fast as they could. They were only five feet away from the sand when a shark began to swim towards them.

And then he spotted it, poking out from the side of a dandelion. It was a four-leaf clover, perfectly proportioned. Lyle rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Upon reopening them, he carefully removed the four leaf clover and held it between two fi

You would most likely find this point of view in a journal entry or diary.

"They paid us with cash and gold"

Instead of watching hours and hours of the Discovery channel, I found myself in my room staring at an empty TV screen. I knew that a new baby was really time consuming. How would my parents ever have time for both of us?

The narrator (the voice that is telling the story) is a character who is part of the action and uses the first-person pronouns I, me, and my. The reader sees everything through this character's eyes.

The narrator is not in the story. It uses pronouns such as "he", "she" or "they"

The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but can't tell us the thoughts of the characters.

The narrator relates some thoughts and feelings of only one character

Josef Landau shot straight up in his bed, his heart racing. He listened, straining his ears in the dark. He wasn't used to the sounds of this new flat, the smaller one he and his family had been forced to move in. Joseph tried to relax, but

The little old man hobbled along the road. He sat on a park bench and watched people walk past him. He said hi to all of the children who walked by.

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Josef and Ruth were only too glad to get away from Papa. Ruthie became to feel scared of him. All Josef could think about was what terrible things must have happened to his father to make him look so awful and act so scared.

This point of view is used in sequence text structure. Giving directions, how to, etc.

This point of view leaves it up to the reader to decide the thoughts and feelings of characters.

The crowd cheered and the clocked ticked. We knew that it would all come down to this play. The coach nodded and I called for the snap. Reggie fired it at me and I ducked back into the pocket. The defense blitzed immediately but our linemen

I remember sitting on Mrs. V's front porch that very first time. My mom and dad looked concerned, but Mrs. V held me tightly and bounced me on her knees.