Lecture 16: I, Me, Mine—First-Person Point of View
- Try your hand at either the double consciousness that Twain uses in 7KH
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character whose worldview you disagree with and write in his or her
voice, trying to let your own worldview peek through. In the second
instance, write from the point of view of a character who is clearly lying
about something; try to stay true to the voice while letting the reader
know that everything the narrator says is not necessarily true.
Writing Exercise