Jennifer Tatum English 1102 Professor Mary Boone November 3, 2014 Witness The definition of a third person objective is when a story has no main character who is telling the story. This is when the author decides not to have a primary character as the center of the story, but chooses a person to view the events mutually from a witness standpoint. Writing in third person point of view allows the writer to tap into anyone’s mind, witness details that others might be unaware to and to let go any pointless feelings. An individual cannot be restricted to the thoughts and perceptions of another. Taking into consideration one can say that writing in third person point of view is very dull and full of details. This is when the details are being presented …show more content…
The storyteller in the story provides the reader with several small details of the lottery, but leaves out the jaw dropping information until the end of the story: the community stones the winner of the lottery. Using the third person point of view to tell the story is a good way to the story of the ironic tale. The storytellers tell the story through a reporter viewpoint allowing readers to see the dullness counterparts the community shows toward the lottery, and helps build the climax of the story by reporting little bits of details to the readers through incidents of the story and thoughts of the community without revealing the appalling twist of the story. The story is mostly told through the third person vivid point of view, but in some instances, the use of third person omniscient is used to reveal details to the reader, which is known to the community. For example, the storyteller states, “Although Mr. Summers and everyone else in the village knew the answer perfectly well it was the business of the official of the lottery to ask such qu4estions formally” (Jackson 141). The limited omniscience used here does not take away from the story, and is used carefully and well to enlighten the reader of small information that do not need to be …show more content…
For example, the storyteller witnesses, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones..."(Jackson 138). The stones that are collected by Bobby are the same stones that are used to stone Tessie, but the evidence is provided so simply and amongst other small amounts of important facts that the reader does not catch it. In addition, since the community opinions are not told to the reader, the reader gradually acquires through the community actions and languages that this lottery is not a real scratch-off. This is the reason why the dramatic ending was exposed at the end of the