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LitCourse 7
How to Read: Point of View

Choosing a narrator

What choices are available to an author when choosing a narrator? The author has two basic alternatives?

• 1st person
• 3rd person

But it's not so simple: within these two basic types of narrators are a number of variations.

Let's start with the 3rd-person narrator.