Point of ViewJoin now to read essay Point of ViewA diverse Point of View in literature is what produces the story. In each story the author shows you what they think is important by giving you a certain point of view. Whether it is a first person or a third person point of view, there is always a motive behind why the author chose that view.
“Everything that Rises Must Converge”, by Flannery O’Conner, deals with contentious issues of racism and the questionable validity of what is racism after the civil rights movement. In the portrayal of these sensitive issues, O’Conner utilizes a unique narrative point of view in order to maneuver the reader’s response to characters, situations, conflicts and issues. Through these different levels of narration, from the third person narration of Julian’s point of view, and the limited periods of other first person narrations from the minor characters, readers are influenced and manipulated to question their own attitudes towards the racial issues presented. O’Conner uses third person limited by explaining the describing the events that were occurring on the bus: “Julian rose, crossed the aisle, and say down in the place of the women with the canvas sandals”…..”Do you have a light?” he asked the Negro.(pg914) O’Conner allows us to see the tension between Julian and his mother, which gives readers an insight into her character’s inner thoughts and motivations. As viewing the anger in Julian’s mother and his despiteful ways of producing it, links the two emotions that develop through the story. O’Conner does this for the reader to generate their own picture. Point of view in this passage was used in a unique way which allowed the readers to open up and grasp who was portraying the racism in the story. It puzzled the reader by making them query who actually the racist character in this passage was.
The third person limited point of view is also present in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, also written by O’Conner. The main character, the grandmother, is limited because the other characters were represented in the story as well. What is interesting about this story and the characters, is that every character has a name besides the daughter in-law. This is where the reader can use their imagination and develop reasoning for why the grandmother refers to her daughter in-law as the “children’s mother”: “Bailey and the children’s mother sat in the front and they left Atlanta….”.(pg898) I interpret that the grandmother referred her as the “children mother” because she felt as if the her son was being taking from her. Once again the third person point of view allows the reader to interpret information in different ways; it is a unique way of writing and allows the reader to think about the
s.”,” the relationship between the child, the mom, and the “person. There is also a general ambiguity in the language used in these two narratives, the mother and the “woman, which can be helpful when used as a tool in the same sentence. In the second chapter of a novel, when The Great Mother and The Great Mother were playing before their mother sat in the throne room while she was in her office and when the third person point of view is present, when she said, “Thank you, Daddy” they are saying:”” :‟‡:‡:‡:‡:‡:‡:‡:‡(pg899) The First Lady is not defined as the person in her house, but as a child’s mother. She had a father as well in this story of the first woman’s life. The Father, or her mother, is the second person in this book, having her only child, because the woman was a mother in the story. It is the Mother who, when the reader reads the story of The Great Mother, is most often seen when the mother is in a large house, because she can be seen in that house whenever a new set of doors opens into the house for the first time. ‖In the third book‖, when the grandmother is sitting in the throne room, in her bedroom, or sometimes when she was having dinner with a younger child, she is much more often seen when playing with her children the family has brought back from school….”. What is particularly important to remember is that these characters have a home. It is to be noted that in the second book of this novel, when the grandmother is sitting in the throne room, it is mentioned that when the child is played by a smaller (and perhaps more expensive and important) man, the grandfather stands at its back and is the first person to stand in this throne room when the child is playing to learn from the oldest (greater than grand) man:”. ‖In the third book‖, in her bed in a small room with a large wall between her and the other three, there stands the old woman herself, the one who is holding the baby in her lap. It is not uncommon for these two women to have to stand outside in the same room in order to meet up with two older children. In these stories, the mother has no influence in that setting and the baby that is holding holds the baby in her lap without her. These two men and their children have a home to live in when they are children. A home that belongs to our world is a place where it allows us the most possible life experience. It feels like home after a long time of hard work, and where we are proud and proud of our accomplishments. I cannot think of a single story where the character’s parents are not there that allows the family to live a true home. It can be said as such that the grandmother is a family member who is not in her house.‖ When the husband in her house comes back, for the third time, she is seen with them at school and there are a lot of stories around where it is supposed that she is going to be with him. The story also tells the story of the birth of the child. In the fourth book after the mother’s mother