There are many elements that a writer should consider when crafting a story. As a reader, we are taken by the writer's choice of narration. The point of view in a story is incorporated by the narration, whether it is: subjective, omniscient, naive, reliable, first-person, Second-Person, or third person. All of these literary devices affect the position of the narrator, if they are in the story or placed as an outside observer, influencing the opinions we place upon the characters and how much we learn about them.
First let us ask ourselves, what is a point of view in a story? To answer this question we must fully understand this idea of a narrator, the one who tells the audience the story, unfolding and observing the events to the readers.
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To be specific, in third-person limited, which is similar to first person cab, express the thoughts and feeling of the main character but not of the others. From third-person objective, the style of writing is wrapped around the observations of a particular character, exempting feelings and emotions of that character or any other character. It is based on the reader’s inference. Lastly, Third-Person Omniscient narration can report the actions of the story of any character, interpret thoughts, emotions, alongside actions, express the past or future, move around as the writer wishes creating a natural flow of words, and include reflections, beliefs, truths, opinions, and judgments. Omniscient narration is like the Sun in our solar system. “There Will Come Soft Rains” a man versus nature story by Ray Bradbury is told in a third person omniscient viewpoint, since it has an outside narrator speaking about a how that was built on technology lacking actual life, after it survived a nuclear explosion ending human life. The fact that it is in third person underlines the sense of emptiness since there is no life in the story. For example, “The front door recognized the dog voice and opened.” “Dedicatedly sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as