Point of View Practice IRACES Question

December 13, 2016

Why is it helpful for a story to be written in 1st person point of view?

I- Each point of view has its pros and cons.
R-It- is helpful for a story to be written in 1st person point of view because
A -it gives you a deep understanding of one character.
C-In the story, Hey, Little Ant, the feelings of the "kids are conveyed. For
example, he yells to the ant, "Can you hear ME?" and "I'm so big and
you're so small."
E-If this story was written in 3rd person by me, and I was standing a
distance away and saw the boy talking to the ant, I may have written that
the boy was happy to have met the ant and was trying to save it because I
was not actually involved in their interaction, but only watching. The first
person PoV takes the guessing out of what a character is feeling because
the information is straight from it.