For those who understand 2nd POV - "Assignment" by Nick Scipio (which just popped up on list on home page) says it is 2nd POV. Is it?
(from one who does NOT understand)
For those who understand 2nd POV - "Assignment" by Nick Scipio (which just popped up on list on home page) says it is 2nd POV. Is it?
(from one who does NOT understand)
Is it?
From just skimming through the story, I would say, Yes.
Throughout the story the narrator is addressing the reader as 'You' and telling 'You' what to feel, do, etc.
Is it?
Although the protagonist is telling 'Mel' what she's doing, the narrative is recounted in the 1st person.
AJ
awnlee jawking
12/9/2018, 3:47:20 PM
@PotomacBob
Is it?
Although the protagonist is telling 'Mel' what she's doing, the narrative is recounted in the 1st person.
AJ
So does that mean you would NOT classify it as 2nd POV?
Is it?
No.
It begins with: "You've seen me around campus,"
"you" = 2nd-POV
"me" = 1st-POV
Technically it's a mixture of 2nd- and 1st-POV.
ETA: Actually, the "2nd-POV" story code is appropriate because part of it is 2nd-POV. It just head-hops between 2nd and 1st.
1st person omni?
No. "The Book Thief" is 1st-person omni. The narrator (Death) refers to himself as "I", but he never refers to another character in the story as "you." He refers to them by their name or he or she like a 3rd-person omni narrator would. The only difference is Death is a character in the story so it's 1st-person.
It just head-hops between 2nd and 1st.
This story is different from most of the stories posted to SOL in that Nick Scipio has placed both the narrator and the reader into the story as characters. That makes defining a POV difficult.
The narration was the narrator-character addressing me the reader to tell me what I, as the character Mel, was thinking, feeling, and doing, which is the definition of 2nd person POV. The narration is written using a mix of 1st and 2nd person verb tenses and the sentences are mainly about what the narrator-character is seeing, hearing, saying, and doing, which would make it 1st person POV. I would not classify the narrator-character telling the reader in the role of Mel what she is feeling and doing as head-hopping.
The dialog is almost exclusively that of the narrator-character. There are only two paragraph's where Mel contributes dialog and those two passages are written as what the narrator-character hears Mel say.
Because of the above, the story is difficult to classify. But to me, it is a 2nd POV story and there is no head-hopping.