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Deped: Learning G0Al Exercise

The document provides examples of different points of view from short stories and asks the reader to identify the point of view in each paragraph. It explains that first person point of view means the narrator is a character in the story, using pronouns like "I", "me", and "we". Third person point of view means the narrator is not a character and uses pronouns like "he", "she", and "they".

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Deped: Learning G0Al Exercise

The document provides examples of different points of view from short stories and asks the reader to identify the point of view in each paragraph. It explains that first person point of view means the narrator is a character in the story, using pronouns like "I", "me", and "we". Third person point of view means the narrator is not a character and uses pronouns like "he", "she", and "they".

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Literature 1

Identifying Point of View

DepED PROMPT How is a story told? Who seems telling the story in a story?

ENSLT-IIC-2.2;
Explain how the elements Read again the story "A Little Incident." Recall the narrator that is a participant
specific to a genre
contribute to the theme in the story. Story told in this style is told in the first person point of view. Point
of a particular literary
selection of view refers to the perspective from which a story is told.

LEARNINGG0AL Exercise
ldentify point of
view. Read the following paragraphs from the short stories cited. Tell what point
of view is used in each. Explain your answer.

1. It was ten days or more after the Autumn Festival and the weather was
KEY CONCEPT of
getting colder. Happy Boy knew that he would need two extra pieces
In the first person
point of view,
clothing. That would take money. When he spent his money to buy clothes
he could not at the same time, save it, and his hope of buying a rickshaw
the narrator is a
character in the he didn't even dare to go on hoping. And suppose he was to continue on
story. The narrator this month-to-month basis, what would his whole life come to in the end?
uses the pronouns
from "The Honor of Happy Boy" by Lau Shaw
, me, and we, in
relating the story.
In the third
person point of
view, the narrator
is not a participant
in the story. The
narrator uses the
pronouns he, she, 2. It was thirteen days before the Feast of Pure Brightness that the earth-
and they.a
quake hit. Just a little after five a.m., had gotten dressed and gone out to
the pump to get some water. The morning was filled with that soft, gentle
twilight of spring, when everything was filled with soft, dreaming colors
and shapes: so when the earthquake hit, I did not believe it first.
from Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep

Lesson 6: Modern China: Bridging Divergence and Transformation 163


world-home-and was about
She had just left one
3. Ellen closed the front door behind her. two worlds. For ey.
to enter another-school. It was not always easy
for her to balance these
Chinese. And in her school
world, she spoke English
ample, in her home world, Ellen spoke her friends would tease her good
Sometimes she'd and speak Chinese at school. Then,
forget
naturedly about it. from "Spelling Bee Blues" by L. C. China

4. Even though the family name Chin means gold, it does not signify that everyone of that name
is rich. Long ago in the province of Chekiang, however, there was a wealthy Chin family whose
fortune was as great as its name. It seemed quite fitting, then, when a son was born to the
family, that he should be clled Po-wan, or Million, for he was certain to be woth a million
pieces of gold when he came of age.
from "The Living Kuan-yin" by C. Kendall and Yao-Wen

5. Ifigured that Pa's order could be taken two ways, his way and my way. I could
as long as no Silkie heard me, and I knew there was one place at play the flute
Silkie would hear me, because no Silkie would dare night
in Old Sion where no
go there. I was
willing to go there that vey
night to find a place where Icould practice. I planned to to Sheol.
go I was that
desperate.
from Sweetwater by Laurence Yep

Unit 2: East Asia: Seat of Wisdom in the


Orient

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