The First Decision Reef, the main character in the novel, The First Stone, by Don Aker, makes a bad decision and ultimately has to deal with the consequences. To begin, Reef latches his anger onto a stone and deliberately throws it over an overpass into oncoming traffic. The stone causes a major accident between not one, but several cars and severely injures a teenage girl. Fortunately for Reef, the Judge sentences him to live at North Hills Group Home, and to volunteer at a rehabilitation centre. This punishment changes Reef’s life for the better.
The type of point of view is great for a reader because we are able to understand how the characters are thinking and feeling,
The characters are all witnesses to the same events, so they are all reflecting on and thinking about similar things. This gives readers a level playing ground to see the characters’ personalities. The passages show the opinions that the characters have on each other and their reflections on the events. This allows readers to receive indirect characterization through a character’s own passages and direct characterization through the opinions of others. Examples of passages showing direct characterization are the first passages from Leanora and Sara when they reflect on the actions of Esther Hirsh.
Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him”(26). The point of view relates to the telling of the story because it gives the reader an outside perspective of the events that are taking place. The narrator’s perspective is third person point of view. Since the narrator’s perspective is third person omniscient, it allows you to understand how each of the characters are feeling. For example, the narrator shows how the feelings between Ethan and Mattie develop over
In literature, writers use a variety of points of view to convey their plot; these points of view can be first person, second person, or third person. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the unnamed narrator describes he or she killing an old man. “Harrison Bergeron” is a dystopian story about Americans in the future that have handicaps in order for them to be equal. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” tells the story of a grandmother and her family taking a trip to Florida that went wrong.
The author showing what the characters in a story are thinking can help them determine what point of view the author is writing
In the short story Click-Clack the RattleBag written by Neil Gaiman is a suspenseful story. Different points of views add to the suspense in the story. Each point of view gives their point of view on what's happening in the story and how it is suspenseful. A girl tells a boy a bedtime story and he is scared. The story takes place in an old creepy house.
Click-Clack The Rattle Bag is a short story by Niel Gaiman. The story starts with the boyfriend sitting at the kitchen table reading a magazine, a little boy walks in and says that it’s time for bed. He then asks the boyfriend to take him to bed, because it’s too dark for him to go on his own. The boyfriend agrees and takes him to bed.
In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, he discusses the “dangers” of television and elaborates his thoughts about how that specific media was affecting American society. Some of the main points Postman touched on can be compared to the modern media society has now. Postman elaborated that television gained control of American society, which meant that Americans stopped questioning the media and opened the opportunity for fake news to be spread. Americans didn’t know what was real and what was fake because, at the end of the day, everything was for entertainment purposes as Postman expresses. The most important topic he covered was that the media was becoming a curriculum where Americans gained their knowledge and ideals.
This story describes a long quest and throughout the journey the two guys had some scary encounters. When they came across a cottage it was risky place to go. “We slept on the hard-earth floor of that cottage. The fire went out, and there was no warmth from the hearth. The man and his woman slept in their bed, behind the curtain.
Having point of views for all characters will give you every side of the situation that has happened. If you have these details it will allow you to know exactly what is going on. Now that the reader has the entire story instead of having half the story you can understand it completely. You can see the tragedies through the characters’ eyes and go through and can sort of live their life for a little while. When I was reading this story I felt like I was stepping into each character’s shoes and being able to experience the ordeal in this book
Narrative point of view can express a different perspective to the reader by presenting experience, voice, and setting. Perspective is a particular way or attitude of considering events, by whatever character’s point of view the narrator takes. A character’s background and experiences in their life is a key to help the reader relate to the character. Culture may provide more insight about the circumstances, and can change a reader’s perspective, as well as the voice of the narrator - sophisticated or naive.
“Click-Clack the RattleBag” by Neil Gainman is a suspenseful short story. The kid in the story wants the adult writer to tell him a scary story about the Click-Clack RattleBag. The kid explains that the click clacks are monsters. But suddenly at the end things start to click and clack then the adult feels fingers wrapping around him. The author develops the characters' different points of view in order to build up suspense throughout the story.
By having this story in first person point of view, it gives the readers an insight to how the narrator really feels about certain characters. It also allows the readers to view background information from the narrator, which allows the story to come together as a whole and be more
The use of third person point of view is able to show the conflicting feelings that both characters acquire. For example in the second paragraph the speaker said, “He sat in front of the fire and looked across at his father and wondered just how he was going to tell him. It was a very serious thing. Tomorrow for the first time in all their trips together he wanted to go
