Essays on Person Point Of View

<Institution> Tennis for Two is said to be the very first video game ever created. It was built on 1958 by William Higinbotham, a physicist (“October 1958,” n.d.). Using a cathode ray tube display, the tennis court was represented by two lines (side view) while the ball was only represented by a dot (“October 1958,” n.d.). Clearly, the design and production of video games have come a long way in the past decades. Tennis for Two was definitely far from the current video games that both children and adults enjoy nowadays. Although there are video games that are ...

In the essay, “Kalief Browder” by Jennifer Gonnerman, (Gonnerman), I noticed that the author took the third person point of view as she wrote the essay. On the other hand, Susan Klebold took the first person point of narration as she recalled the happening of that fateful day. In the narration by Gonnerman, it is clear that she felt empathy for Browder as she met him due to the choice of words that she uses as she describes the occurrences (Gonnerman). I believe that this is seen from the fact that she says that the stories that Browder was ...

Narrative point of view refers to the position of the narrator in relation to the story that one is narrating. As such, when evaluating the point of view of the narrator, one focuses on the relationship between the narrator and the characters in the story. There are three major points of view that narrators can adopt while narrating a story. These are first-person, second-person, and third-person point of views. Either of the foregoing points of views have different effect on the understanding and believability of the characters or the story being told, as is evident from O Pioneers! and ...

- Introduction

The physical environment, as described in a story, can take on different meanings and describe various physical sensations when perceived by the narrator, both in first and in third person. The quality of the descriptions relating to the physical, sensual feelings such as sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are affected by an omnipotent narrator writing from a third person perspective, or when written from a ...

The setting is very important in any work of fiction. Often, the setting in the work of fiction carries a symbolic meaning that helps underscore the central theme of the work of fiction. In light of this, this paper will consider the symbolic function that the settings in A Worn Path and I Stand Here Ironing by Eudora Welty and Tillie Olsen respectively. The central theme in Eudora’s A Worn Path is the triumph of human love. This is seen through the protagonist who endures everything to make a journey inspired by the love for her grandson. Although she is ...

OBJECTIVE/THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW

Lucy looked through her windscreen at the snow-covered road. She noticed the tracks of other cars as she turned the ignition. Driving carefully, she eased her way down the steep hill to make her usual turn into Main Street. As she put her foot on the brakes to steady the car downwards she noticed something was wrong. Lucy was pressing the brakes, but instead of slowing down the car was picking up speed. She slammed the brakes, but the car just moved faster. The tyres had no grip on the road. The car was skating. She had lost ...

Question 1 Identify two passages from the essay where the author uses description effectively. For each passage, explain the impact or effect of this description.

“A thigh-length leather vest covered with fringe and studded with silver, it dates from around 1967, a fanciful time in college-boy fashions.”

In this passage the author uses description effectively, for presenting how his leather vest looked like. This description depicts a fashion item and its effect is visual, as the readers can imagine how the jacket looks, attaching all the elements of the description to the item, for identifying a glamorous and fancy leather jacket. Moreover, this description generates also an immediate association with a person who wears it: a young boy, portly, proud, with a somehow restlessness temper. In the same time, ...

Question one

Identify two passages from the essay where the author uses description effectively. For each passage, explain the impact or effect of this description. “My son is almost fifteen years old, the size of a grown man, and when he bursts into room glassware rattles and the cat on your lap grabs on to your knees and leaps from the starting block.”

This passage not only presents to the reader the physical qualities of the son, but also effectively describes to the audience the behavior and the personality of the son. It through the description of how the son ...

Background

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

Narrative Strategies

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three genres: crime, ...

Hunger, a popular novel by Knut Hamsun, is indeed unwittingly about hunger. What made it controversial were the idiosyncrasies, thoughts that are often one-sided, and the abandonment and depreciation of the author on some of the basic ideologies that other authors in his era so loved, among others. There are simply a lot of things about Hamsun’s Hunger that one cannot afford to miss, not just because of its peculiarity or extraordinary characteristics, if not weird at all, but also because of the moving and entertaining features. Perhaps from some readers’ point of view, the story in itself can ...

A Rose for Emily is a story by William Faulkner. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on 25 September 1897. He was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert and Maud Faulkner, and was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner. He never completed high school, but was able to enroll in University for a special catering program, to serve the war veterans. He stands out to be the most unsurpassed American writers of the twentieth century. Faulkner has written novels, poems, screenplays and short stories. Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Play, in 1925. In addition, his ...

Immigrant Experience and Teenage Love in Diaz’s “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie)"

Throughout its history, one of the characteristics of the United States of America has been the immigrant experience that has developed on its soil. The hardships of these people, especially of those that come from Latin American countries, are one of the most important recurring themes in Junot Diaz’s oeuvre. This famous Dominican-American writer has been showered with praise from critics both at a national and at an international level, earning him many prizes and distinctions, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship and a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This short story is one of his ...

Christianity developed out of Judaism. It is based on the doctrines from Old Testament and New Testament. The New Testament was originally written in Greek language. It is the second part of Biblical canon followed by the Old Testament. The New Testament incorporates twenty-seven books. They are written in different times and different circumstances. Both Old Testament and New Testament are the sacred books for Christians. The Development of Christianity starts from the birth of Jesus Christ and the holy and noble task assigned to him by God. He was a prophet. The New Testament are based on his religious ...

In George Eliot’s “Silas Marner” we first see Silas Marner arriving in Raveloe and the villagers’ reaction to a stranger and his silent reaction to their treatment of him. Silas did not invite anyone into his cottage neither did he set foot into the village. He remembers well the way he was treated in his old town of Lantern Yard, so he tries to keep as far as possible from people. Silas was lonely, and he drowned his loneliness in his work. He was a weaver, and the gold pennies he received for his work was his companion and sole ...

There is a vast sea of inequality stretching infinitely across borders, flowing freely throughout our so-called society. Inequality comes in different shades and hues: masters and slaves, feudal lords and peasants, males and females, bourgeoisie and proletarians, Christians and Jews, Westerns and non-Westerns, and whites and blacks – just name it, our society has it. In the context of a highly polarized society, deep-rooted culture of discrimination becomes air that we breathe; coupled with a varying degree of violence, it has been a part of life in a protracted way, as if of an essence. Wars such as the Civil War, Thirty Years’ War, World ...

The tone of the Shaffer and Burke articles is didactic. Shaffer is trying to educate the reader about the meaning of Southernization. Accordingly, Burke is informing the reader about the impact that technology will have on the values and beliefs by which people live. The two authors present a first person point of view. They participate in the action throughout the narration. This means that whatever the writers are presenting may not be objectively true. Conversely, Strayer uses a matter-of-fact tone. This is apparent because Strayer does not use fanciful or emotional words or phrases. Consequently, Strayer’s presents an ...

William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is a brilliant short story; not only because of its captivating storyline but also because of the way the author presents this storyline. The story has an intricately complex chronology whereby the author shifts, structures and manipulates time in his presentation of the characters inner lives and motivation. A lot of information about the characters is presented through constant visits to memory as well as through flashbacks. The other conspicuous literary device utilized by the author is the narrative point of view. The three stylistic devices mentioned; non-linear time sequence, memory and narrative ...

The poems entitled “To a Daughter Leaving Home” written by Linda Pastan and “Learning the Bicycle” by Wyatt Prunty focused on the main theme which was guiding a child to learn how to ride the bicycle and eventually accepting that the parent or the teacher needs to let go. The current discourse hereby aims to present a comparative analysis of these two poems through a closer evaluation of literary elements, such as: points of view, themes, language use and any figurative or rhetorical elements. There were similarities in the two poems with regards to the points of view of the narrator. Both ...

Irony, Point of View, and the Significance of Good and Evil inin Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” describes the city of Omelas and its people as a utopian place of near perfect joy and perfection, with one exception. Hidden deep within the city is a miserable child who lives locked alone and miserable, covered with sores, who begs to be released from its prison. The catch is, the citizens of Omelas know that “their happiness, the beauty of their city,” ...

Selected Scene

When I asked my best friend, Jimmy, to check on the essay I have written for the literature assignment. Thus, the two characters would be Character A, the narrator, talking in the first person point of view; and Character B, Jimmy, would describe the scene from the third person point of view.

The Scene from Character A’s Point of View

I was confident that the literary work I have written was exemplary. I was confident that even Jimmy, best friend Jimmy, will be impressed too with this piece of work. I imagined the flattery words and commendation bursting from his lips. I decided to show him my ...

Colleen J. McElroy’s poem, “Military Woman: Evolution,” is a poem that describes the changes a woman experiences while spending a career in the military. It is written from the point of view of the woman herself. McElroy makes use of several poetic devices including speaker, voice, structure, tone, imagery, and repetition to demonstrate to readers that the evolution this military woman experiences is an evolution of not only her view of woman in the military, but also her self as a woman and as a military woman. McElroy’s choice to write this poem from a first person point of view and to ...

Alice Walker’s short story, Everyday Use, is written from a central first-person point of view. A reader can tell this because the story is told from the “I” point of view, from Mama’s view. She is central in all that happens in the story. She is a participant and not just an observer. The story is a good example of subjective narration, because the narrator, Mama, has a definite opinion about what she describes, the people involved, and is not attempting to be objective about her thoughts or the events that happen. She shares her inner thoughts and fantasies, like ...

The short stories Girl by Jamaica Kincaid and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. focus on the themes of equality, although at different times and settings.

Girl talks about inequality from the author’s point of view, which can be assumed to be based on her experience, while Harrison Bergeron talks about how the author perceives – from a third person point of view – an egalitarian world in the future where Americans’ perception of equality is achieved

Summary

Girl was set in the second half of the 20th century, somewhere in the Caribbean presumably. It is about a dialogue between a mother and daughter ...

Photography is a form of art that shows the artist’s perspective in a snapshot. Photographers capture a moment in time in order to portray emotion and convey a particular message. Political photos serve as a detailed and informative example of this form of expression. Not only do they show us history in time, but they also preserve memories of the event, lest history cloud perceptions of how wars are waged. In the case of the Vietnam War, political photography was used by many pioneering photographers as a weapon, showing the horrors of the war on both foreign and domestic soil. Political photography proved to ...