The narrator tells the narrative by directly addressing the reader or the second person.
Many biblical writers wrote from a first-person point of view.
The first-person narrator is one witness to the story. The first-person narrator is restricted in knowledge and may or may not be accurately perceiving other characters, situations, or events. The author presents from his personal view as a participant or presents from the adopted view of a character. The evidence that the narrator is communicating from the first-person mode is that the storyteller uses first-person pronouns (i.e., I, we, me, us, myself, ourselves, my, mine, our, and ours). The narrator tells the narrative from his own perspective as the first person and as a character in the story. (The narrator's point of view should not be confused with the author's point of view or a character's point of view.) The narrator can present from three primary prisms or views which are simply enumerated as the first-person, the second-person, and the third-person point of view.įirst-person Point of View. However, authors most often communicate their narrative through the "voice" and from the view of a narrator. Personal letters, personal journals, and eyewitness accounts of history use the first-person point of view. Hence, the author and the narrator and the main character are the same person for autobiographies. The writer of an autobiography narrates his own life's story as the main character. The narrator's point of view is the perspective or vantiage from which the storyteller narrates.