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TO TELL YO SOMETHING
TO TELL
YO
SOMETHING
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POINT OF VIEW FLOW CHART Decide whether narrative is written in 1st or 3rd person 1ST PERSON: (1, me, we, us) Is a major character telling the story? 3RD PERSON: (he, she, they) Do you know what any of the characters are thinking? YES MAJOR PARTICIPANT (First Person Singular/or plural) Is the story written in present tense? NO MINOR PARTICIPANT YES Do you know what most of the characters are thinking? (3 or more) NO Do you know any of the character's histories or backgrounds? NO YES OMNISCI NT LIMITED YES First Person Distant NO First Person Close YES FAMILIAR OBSERVER Third Person Close? NO OBJECTIVE OBSERVER Third Person Distant OMNISCIENT Third Person Close?
POINT OF VIEW FLOW CHART
Decide whether narrative is written in 1st or 3rd person
1ST PERSON: (1, me, we, us)
Is a major character telling the story?
3RD PERSON: (he, she, they)
Do you know what any
of the characters are thinking?
YES
MAJOR
PARTICIPANT
(First Person
Singular/or plural)
Is the story
written in
present tense?
NO
MINOR
PARTICIPANT
YES
Do you know
what most of
the characters
are thinking?
(3 or more)
NO
Do you know
any of the
character's
histories
or backgrounds?
NO
YES
OMNISCI NT LIMITED
YES
First
Person
Distant
NO
First
Person
Close
YES
FAMILIAR
OBSERVER
Third Person
Close?
NO
OBJECTIVE
OBSERVER
Third Person
Distant
OMNISCIENT
Third Person
Close?
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ETHICS ARE NOT NECESSARILY TO DO WITH BEING LAW- ABIDING. I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE MORAL PATH, DOING THE RIGHT THING. -Kate Atkinson wmu.MOtivatorcoach.com
ETHICS ARE NOT
NECESSARILY TO DO
WITH BEING LAW-
ABIDING. I AM VERY
INTERESTED IN THE
MORAL PATH,
DOING THE RIGHT
THING.
-Kate Atkinson
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. (Anton Chekhov) izquotes.com
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a
posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome
mistress.
(Anton Chekhov)
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne lyce QuotePixeI. con
First-person narrators is the
way I know how to write a
book with the greatest power
and chance of artistic
success.
- Anne lyce
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Votes: 1

Aminatta Forna
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. Votes: 1

James McBride
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. Votes: 1

Meg Cabot
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.' Votes: 1

Kate Atkinson
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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' Votes: 1

Maya Angelou
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There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative. Votes: 1

Kristen Stewart
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When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load. Votes: 1

Thomas Steinbeck
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A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. Votes: 0

Norman Lock
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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages. Votes: 0

Katharine Weber
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First (568 quotes)

First do no harm! Votes: 3 Sophie E. Tallis

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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. Votes: 4 Jane Smiley

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Die Treulosigkeit ist sozusagen eine Lüge der ganzen Person. Votes: 3 Bruyère, Jean de La

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The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. Votes: 3 Sri Aurobindo

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