![]() ![]() ![]() When you read a passage written in second person, it’s as if the writer is talking directly to you. Second person PoV uses pronouns like you, your, and yourself. ![]() We went out to the Cafe Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard” (from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises). I have a habit of imagining the conversations between my friends. Writers tend to use first person when they want to convey emotional intensity, as in a personal narrative, or when they want us to know the narrator intimately.The first person narrator’s knowledge of all the story’s events is limited. We also only see what that narrator sees we can’t see what else is going on around them or even around the next bend in the road. We only know what the narrator knows we can’t get into the heads of other characters who are nearby. The weakness of first person is its lack of significant information.The strength of first person is in the way it shares emotional intensity.You think what they think, see what they see, and know what they know. ![]() When you read a passage written in first person, it’s as if you’re inside that person’s head, seeing through their eyes.First person PoV uses pronouns like I, me, us, our, and we. ![]()
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