Point of View* *
In literature, point of view refers to who narrates a story and how much that narrator knows. An author may choose between first-person point of view or third-person point of view. In a story told from the first-person point of view, the writer chooses to have a character within a story narrate it, using the pronouns I and me. This method of storytelling lets the reader see and know only what that character, the narrator, sees and knows. Third-person narrators can be classified as omniscient or limited, depending on how much they know. In the omniscient poing of view, the narrator is all-knowing and so can describe every character's thoughts. By contrast, a narrator in a third person limited point of view possesses limited knowledge, often confined to one or two characters.

Example of different points of view:

Conrad:
"A nigger was being beaten nearby"
Douglass:
"I have often been awakened at the dawn of the day by the most heart-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. * *

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