PERSPECTIVE OR POINT OF

VIEW

LINK SPIRAL

Point of View• The narrator is the character or voice

that tells a story. • Point of view refers to the perspective

from which a story is told, or the voice in which a story is told.

• Point of view also helps determine:– • a story’s tone– • how much a reader learns about

characters– • a reader’s opinion of characters– • a reader’s involvement in the story

NARRATOR• One who tells a story, the speaker or the “voice” of

an oral or written work.

• Although it can be, the narrator is not usually the same person as the author.

• The narrator is one of three types of characters in a given work,– (1) participant (protagonist or participant in any

action that may take place in the story), – (2) observer (someone who is indirectly involved

in the action of a story)– (3) non participant (one who is not at all involved

in any action of the story).

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