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Understanding Narrative Voice: Exploring Omniscient and First-Person Perspectives

In Mr. Briggs' freshman English class, students will delve into the intricacies of narrative voice and style, focusing on the short story "The Interlopers" and the literary principles behind narration. Students will examine the impact of different narrators on characterization and plot, specifically looking at omniscient, first-person, and third-person limited perspectives. The session will cover essential concepts in literary response and analysis, culminating in homework that reinforces comprehension through reading and critical questioning of "The Necklace."

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Understanding Narrative Voice: Exploring Omniscient and First-Person Perspectives

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  1. Freshman English Mr. Briggs’ Class Room B3 Tuesday October 21-22, 2009

  2. Taking Attendance Please sit quietly while roll is taken

  3. Today’s Objective and Learning Standard • Develop a full understanding of the narrator’s voice when reading a short story. • Identify the omniscient style of narration in the short story The Interlopers. • Standard: Literary Response and Analysis 3.9: Explain how persona, voice and choice of narration affect characterization and the plot of a story.

  4. Homework – put in PSA’s Read “The Necklace” pages 160-168 in the textbook. Answer questions 2-6 on page 170. Assignment name: The Necklace

  5. Collect Hero Essays • Please place your essays in the basket.

  6. Take Notes on Narration • Get a textbook • Go to page 148 • Write down notes as explained on this PowerPoint • Title The Narrator

  7. Narration (go to page 148 in textbooks) • Who is telling the story? • The narrator controls everything we know about characters and events. • Three main narrators in stories: • Omniscient • First-person • Third-person limited

  8. Omniscient Narrator • All-knowing storyteller • God POV • This narrator is never a part of the story • Knows everything about every character – how each thinks and feels

  9. First-Person Narrator • First-person point of view (POV) • Uses “I” in the story telling • Talks to the reader as if they’re actually sitting together • Very personal POV

  10. Third-Person Limited • The focus is on just one character, but talks about the character in the third-person, using he or she • The reader shares one character’s reaction to everything that happens in the story • Knowledge of the other characters is limited

  11. The Interlopers • What’s an interloper? - intruder: someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission • Page 151 in textbooks • Notice the omniscient narrator • Surprise ending – when the conflict in a story is totally unexpected but still logical

  12. “The Interlopers” Questions • Video 1 • Video 2 • Answer questions 1-5 on page 157 of your textbook • Complete page 89 in your IR.

  13. Tone • The attitude the author takes towards the subject, character, or audience. • If you change a story’s POV, you may also change its tone. • What if the young woman tells the story of the saxophonist instead of the man in PJ’s?

  14. Prewriting • Respond to the following writing prompt in your notes. • Is it always best to get the things you want, or is it better to wait and maybe not have them at all?

  15. The Necklace • Told in Third-Person Limited • Protagonist is Mathilde • Setting: Paris in the 1800’s • Page 161 in your textbooks • Video

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