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Differences Between First-and Third-Person Narration. CUSD ELA Initiative LR 3.5 DRAMA 2009. First- and Third-Person Narration.
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Differences Between First-and Third-Person Narration CUSD ELA Initiative LR 3.5 DRAMA 2009
First- and Third-Person Narration “Javier is examining his upper lip in the mirror to see whether he’s starting to grow a mustache yet. Someone knocks on the door and Javier blushes and jumps.” Instructions: • Tell this story as if you were Javier or • Tell this story as if you were standing outside the story watching what was going on.
First-Person Narration • When a character in a story tells the story, that character uses pronouns like I and me in tell about the action. • We say that the story is being told from the first-person point of view. • How many of you wrote your story from this point of view?
Third-Person Narration • When a story is told by a speaker who is outside the story, we say that the story is told from the third-person point of view. • The speaker uses pronouns like she, he, and they, because the speaker is tell about the characters. • How many of you wrote your story from this point of view?
First- and Third-Person Narration “Javier is examining his upper lip in the mirror to see whether he’s starting to grow a mustache yet. Someone knocks on the door and Javier blushes and jumps.” • What point of view is this example told, first person or third person? [third-person] • Why? [Because the narrator is not a character in the story]
First- and Third-Person Narration Tell me whether they are first-person or third-person point of view. • Rashon and his dog were together all the time. Rashon loved that dog so much that he even let it go to school with him. [third person] • The sun was already coming through my window. I’d slept through the alarm, and Mom must have decided not to wake me up. [first person]
First- and Third-Person Narration Narrators are part of fiction as well as nonfiction. Listen to these lines from a book about the life of Queen Elizabeth I. Listen for the narrator “From the time she was a young girl, Elizabeth was very willful. She knew what she wanted and made sure that she got it. People around her often remarked that she was learning at a young age how to act like a ruler.” What point of view is used in this passage, first or third person? [third person]
First- and Third-Person Narration Now, listen to this passage from the life of a sailor named Gabriel Escobar. “No matter how hard I tried, I could not make sense of the spelling and arithmetic lessons Mrs. Banyon taught me. In fact, I could barely pay attention in her class. Outside the window was the roaring ocean, and that was where I wanted to be.” What point of view is used in this passage? [first person]
First- and Third-Person Narration • The passage about Queen Elizabeth is from a biography. • Biographies are always written in third person. • The passage about Gabriel Escobar is from an autobiography. • Autobiographies are always written in first person.
First- and Third-Person Narration Let’s try another passage from the life of dancer Ling Liu “Practice, practice, practice,” I muttered to myself as I dragged my feet out of bed that cold winter morning. If I was to be ready for my debut performance just two weeks away, I needed to know my routine perfectly. There was no such thing as too much practice. Still, my warm bed looked very inviting that morning—and many mornings afterward.
First- and Third-Person Narration • Who is telling the story? [the dancer, Ling Liu] • What kind of a book is this passage taken from, a biography or an autobiography? [an autobiography] • From what point of view is the story told? [first person]
First- and Third-Person Narration When authors use third-person point of view in stories, they have different ways of doing it. Let’s do a demonstration… I need two volunteers. I’m going to describe what the volunteers are doing in two different ways. Listen carefully.
First- and Third-Person Narration • “Two students are walking back and forth. They have their hands clasped behind their backs.” • “Two students are walking back and forth. They have their hands clasped behind their backs. They are worried about something.” What is the point of view of the two descriptions? [third person] What is the main difference between the two? [the first description simply tells what the students are doing; the second description tells what the students are doing and what they are thinking.]
First- and Third-Person Narration Authors who use third person still have decisions to make about point of view. • They can have the narrator know what some or all of the characters think and feel. readersknow characters’ thoughts • They can also have the narrator be objective—that is, be like a newspaper reporter and describe only what happens. no feelings, just what is seen
First- and Third-Person Narration Last example Molly and Jeana packed their bike packs. They included everything they thought they’d need during the day. Molly made sandwiches. She made peanut butter and jelly on white bread and ham and Swiss on rye. Jeana found the tire patches and pump. She put them in the basket of her bike. Both girls filled their water bottles. The sun was shining, and they were just a bout to leave for an all-day bike ride. “This is going to be fun. Let’s race!” shouted Jeana. • Why is this sample third person? [the narrator is not a character in the story.]
First- and Third-Person Narration • How do you know that this narrator is objective? [The characters’ actions are described, but their thoughts and feelings are not described] • Let’s change this paragraph so that we know some things that Jeana is thinking and feeling. • What sentences can we add?
First- and Third-Person Narration Now let’s practice… Worksheet/Homework
