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How Does Godwin Use Third Person Omniscient In A Sorrowful Woman

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In A Sorrowful Woman, Godwin uses third person omniscient point of view to affect my reaction and our reaction to be sympathetic towards all the characters. Godwin uses third person omniscient to affect my reaction to feel sympathetic for the characters. I feel sympathetic because they shared the feelings and the actions of all the characters. An example of them sharing the feeling of a character using third person was “She yelp without no tears.” That saying makes me feel her pain that is cause by her sickness because you can just imagine her yelping and the way it is said makes the yelping sound like it was a hurt yelping. I also feel sympathetic for the father/husband because he has to take care of her and his son. The description that …show more content…

We do feel sympathy for the little boy because no kid wants to be slap by their mother. It said, “that he ran away crying,” no one wants to be rejected like that. The only way we could of felt sympathetic for the little boy was third person omniscient. If Godwin were to change the point of view or the kind of third person we probably wouldn’t of even felt sympathetic for him. Another place in the story that feel sympathetic is when, “She made the last dinner and went to sleep. The father closing her eyelids shut and then the boy asking if they can have dinner.” We feel sympathy because Godwin used he and she to say that the mother had died, and that the dad/husband knows she has past, but the kid doesn’t know yet or understand that he is not getting his mother back. No one wants to feel the sorrow of losing a lost definitely if you are a kid or the spouse of the person who, that is why we feel sympathetic.The purpose of Godwin using third person point of view for all of us was so we felt sympathetic for all the characters not just one but all. Third person omniscient helps all the thoughts feelings of all the characters and that is what truly makes us all feel

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