Point Of View

Point of view: In literature, the perspective from wich the story is told. There are two general divisions of point of view and many subdivisions within those.

• The First Person Narrator tells the story with the first person pronoun"I," and is a character in the story. THis narrator can be the protagonist, a participant, or an observer.

"When I die, I shall attempt to be buried in New Hamshire- alongside my mother- but the Anglican Church will perform the necessary service before my body sufferes the indignity of trying to be sneaked  through U.S Customs." -John

(John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany)

This quote shows that this is a first person point of view in A Prayer For Owen Meany because he is a character in the book as well as the narrator. So he tells us the things that we do not see. And what he thinks is going on in the story. We never know what the character are saying, only what they are thinking.