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Point of View Omniscient1 st Person3 rd Person Slide 2 Omniscient All-knowing narrator A God-like observer Knows everything that is going on in the story Can see into every characters heart and mind Tells us what each character is thinking Does not take part in the stories action Slide 3 Omniscient (All knowing) A newly married pair had boarded this coach at San Antonio. The mans face wasreddened from many days in the wind andsunFrom time to time he looked downrespectfully at his attire. He sat with a handon each knee, like a man waiting in abarbers shop. The glances he devoted toother passengers were furtive and shy. The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmerewith small reservations of velvet here andthere, and with steel buttons abounding.She continually twisted her head to regardher puff sleeves, very stiff, straight, andhigh. They embarrassed her. --Stephen Crane, from The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Slide 4 Omniscient Pushing Daisies Slide 5 1 st Person An I tells the story This I also participates in the story Usually the protagonist (main character) Presents only what the I character sees, hears, knows, thinks, and feels. Slide 6 1st Person We boarded the Pullman carat San Antonio and sat stifflyin the plush seat. I was sonervous, and I noticed thatmy new husband seemed illat ease. Did he regret ourmarriage already? I feltmyself falling in love with hisshyness Slide 7 1 st Person The Office Slide 8 3 rd Person-Limited Story is told by an outside observer Views the action from the vantage point of one character Plot events are limited to what this one character experiences or observes. Not all-knowing, but all-knowing about one character Slide 9 3 rd Person-Limited He was a working mana sheriff and dressed in a new suit for thefirst time in his life. His face waslike a map, full of lines fromexposure to the sun. He wasterrified of what hed donemarried a woman he hardlyknewbut pleased with himselfand his quiet bride. Slide 10