Book of Knowledge

Reeling your readers- Lesson 2- Exercise

Select one of the the slice of life vignettes that you wrote for orientation last week and rewrite it in each of the following tenses: first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Keep all of your point of view vignettes and your answers to the questions below in one static item.

After you've written them all sit back and take a look at them. In a few sentences each answer all of the following questions.

♥ What are the differences in the pieces?

♥ How did they change when the point of view changed?

♥ Did the narrative voice change when the point of view changed?

♥ Which one do you like best? Why?


Answer:

First person:

Everyday, I spend quite sometime to make lesson plans for Ayesenur, my Turkish student whom I teach English. I have to make a nice little blend of fun and knowledge to make the lessons interesting to her. By Allah's grace, Ayesenur, or Ayesha, as I call her, is a very hard working teenager whose excitement and interest makes my work a lot easier for me. She used to be downhearted before, but she's a fast learner, and can catch up before falling back.

Third Person Limited

Ayesenur was a Turkish who learnt English from a Bangladeshi. She was not so good in English before, and used to be scared of the language. But despite being a little weak, she used to learn with interest, and her young instructor also tried to make the lessons nice mixtures of fun and knowledge. She could catch her lessons easily before falling back.

Third person Omniscient

She used to teach me English. I was scared of the language before, but she helped me overcome my fear. I know I'm not that good in English, but I do try, and she used to help me with all my problems.

The first piece seems more direct and readers can easily relate to it, as the experience is common, and the information is easier to comprehend.

The second piece is like a narrative paragraph, which is a little monotonous.

The third paragraph is from the student's point of view. Which is completely opposite of the first passage.

I prefer the second passage most, as it talks about the events in general, without pointing to a particular character

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