3 rd Person Point of View MYSTERY

1. 3rd Person Point of View MYSTERY

2. The Players • Third Person Objective • Third Person Limited Omniscient • Third Person Omniscient

3. Third Person Objective the narrator relates the facts without recording thoughts and feeling of characters. The facts, madam. Just the FACTS

4. Third Person Limited Omniscient Kind of like hearing your friends deepest, darkest secrets the narrator is outside the story but can enter the mind of one of the characters.

5. Third Person Omniscient ALL KNOWING . . .KNOWING . . . KNOWING the narrator can enter the minds of all the characters and comment on their thoughts, actions, and feelings.

6. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES • 3rd PERSON OBJECTIVE: She watched him from across the room. He slammed his fist against the desk. He furiously swung open the door and left screaming down the hall. She wiped a tear from her eye.

7. 3rd PERSON Limited Omniscient: She watched him from across the room. He slammed his fist against the desk. He realized that killing that fly was not worth breaking every bone in his hand. He furiously swung open the door and left screaming down the hall. He felt soooo stupid. She wiped a tear from her eye.

8. 3rd PERSON Omniscient: She watched him from across the room wondering what he kept following around the room. He slammed his fist against the desk. He realized that killing that fly was not worth breaking every bone in his hand. He furiously swung open the door and left screaming down the hall. He felt soooo stupid. She wiped a tear from her eye. “My goodness,” she thought, “I’ve never seen anything so funny in my life!”

9. SO NOW YOU THAT KNOW . . . • It’s Your Turn. Try these on for size: “The planter saw before him a motionless and unaltered throng . . . In the comforting, matter-of-fact light of morning, it seemed to him now that the ants hadn’t a ghost of a chance.” -- “Leiningin Versus the Ants” by Carl Stephenson THIRD PERON LIMITED OMNISCIENT

10. How about this one? • Once upon a time lived Cinderella. Cinderella got her name because she was forced to work as a servant and to sleep near the cinders in the kitchen’s fireplace. Cinderella was often made miserable by her wicked step-mother. Truth be told, Cinderella’s step-mother treated her so cruelly because she was very jealous of poor Cinderella’s beauty. • THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

11. QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN READING • WHO IS THE NARRATOR? • IS THE NARRATOR A CHARACTER IN THE STORY, OR DOES THE NARRATOR STAND OUTSIDE THE STORY? • DOES THE NARRATOR KNOW ALL THE ACTION AND CHARACTERS IN THE STORY, OR IS THE NARRATOR’S VIEW LIMITED TO ONE CHARACTER ONLY? • HOW DOES THE POINT OF VIEW AFFECT MY REACTION TO THE STORY’S CHARACTERS AND EVENTS?