Friday, March 4, 2011

Point of View

When an author writes a story, it is often told from one point of view. For example, in The Three Little Pigs, we usually think of the three pigs as the innocent victims of the 'Big Bad Wolf.' The author makes many choices as they write a story to help the reader understand or see the events from that character's point of view.
In the three little pigs the author:
-begins the story by introducing the 3 little pigs to the reader,
-uses friendly language when describing the pigs and mean language when describing the 'vilian' in the story.
In the end, the 'good little pig' outsmarts the wolf and isn't tricked by his 'sneaky' plans.

Think of the story Little Red Riding Hood. Who's point of view is the story told from? How do you know it is told from that point of view? How would it be different if it was told from a different character's point of view (e.g. the wolf, the Granny)?

Think of at least 2 other stories that you know. Who's point of view are they told from? How do you know?

5 comments:

  1. kyla
    i can discribe the story that we read "a bird child" because in the story the auther introduced the character and told a story from her past.

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  2. The ather is trying to get you to understand the story By Quinton

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  3. kyla
    ali has glasses. jenny wants glasses. ali told jenny " you don't want glasses you have to clean them and you don't get to sleep with them on it is SUPER ANNOYING!!!!! jenny did not want glasses any more, she wanted blue eyes like her mom but that did not happen so she had to live her life with brown eyes like her dad
    the end

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  4. kyla
    jennifer has glasses. kaylie wants glasses. she would rather have glasses then her long red hair. so she kept on telling her mom she can not see from a distance. her mother takes her to the place where you get you eyes tested and the eye doctor said " she was fine she does not need glasses. kaylie said to her mother " i just want to have glasses like jennifer, her mom had a solution, her mom said to buy fake glasses at claires. so kaylie got fake glasses at claires. when she got to school she told jennifer that she got glasses. jennifer believed her, but when she got home she felt guilty about lying to her best friend. so the next day at school during recess she told jennifer the truth about her not having real glasses. jennifer it was okay and we are still BFF's
    the end

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  5. once upen a time there was a garil her name mrs K she loved her galasses so she cep them on the holl day bye Damion

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