Seeing through Other Eyes—Point of View ......................................

Lecture 15

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making choices, and deciding what point of view and voice to adopt
in a narrative is one of the most important choices you have to
make. This choice not only determines the perspective from which the story
and plot are viewed, but it can determine what actually happens, and it has
a powerful effect on what characters you include and how you depict them.
In this lecture, we’ll take a quick tour of the most important types of point
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view and the third person point of view in more detail.

Point-of-View Tour
z If you imagine your story as a landscape, you can think of point
of view as the dome of the sky arching over the story. The different
possible points of view are points on that curve: from the highest point,
overlooking the entire landscape, to the lowest point, where a character
or a narrator can see only what’s directly in front of him or her.

Objective

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Objective third person

Points of View

Omniscient third person

Close third person

Subjective
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