Point of View

Point of View- Narration

Complete 2 of these tasks in class:

1. Describe an ordinary event, focused through a character's point of view. Make the event seem, by turns:
   • wonderful
   • sad
   • frightening
   1. (Each description should be one hundred words. Remember, you are describing the same event each time, only from a different character's point of view, and relying in each instance on sense details to convey the mood.)
2. Describe an extraordinary event now, but make it seem ordinary. Again, focus the description through a character's point of view.
3. Describe an action so that it reveals something psychologically or temperamentally significant about the character performing the action.
4. Describe two people eating a meal. They do not speak, but their actions tell us something about their relationship, how they feel about each other.
5. Describe an event witnessed by a "disturbed" observer--someone, that is, whose state of mind may make him or her distort the actual nature of the event. Try, at the same time, indirectly, to convey the "real" nature of the event.
6. Writing in the first person, describe an activity or event you are unlikely ever to experience yourself. Through your use of specific sense details, make it seem that this event surely happened to you.