10th Grade Point of View

When a story is written in 1st person point of view, the reader knows...

What point of view uses the word

your?

Third person point of view is when the narrator is talking about

Which point of view is the most reliable?

Which point of view is the least reliable?

The birds were chirping and the sun was shining. Kevin and Juno were sitting on a park bench together. Neither of them was smiling. After a long period of silence, Kevin said, "This isn't going to work. I mean, you're a dog person and I'm a cat person." Juno nodded. A tear rolled down her face. Kevin went on, "If we got married and bought a house, what kind of pet would we get? Some kind of cat-dog? Somebody's going to be unhappy." Juno began sobbing and said, "Ok, let's just end it now. Have fun with your slobbery dogs." She jumped off the bench and ran into the woods.

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”

― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

I reached down to pick up the shards of glass around Ester's bare feet. She didn't move, but her tension was like the skin on the bright, tiny beads of blood. I curse, and, like an idiot, grabbed at a piece of glass. It pierced my thumb like a knife.

John looked nervously at Patty as she reached into the cage without hesitation. She seemed to not to be scared of snakes in the slightest.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.

Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank. He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair. But most of all, he just wanted to pull one.