Point of ViewEssay Preview: Point of ViewReport this essayA diverse Point of View in literature is what produces the story. In each story the author shows you what they think is important by giving you a certain point of view. Whether it is a first person or a third person point of view, there is always a motive behind why the author chose that view.
“Everything that Rises Must Converge”, by Flannery OConner, deals with contentious issues of racism and the questionable validity of what is racism after the civil rights movement. In the portrayal of these sensitive issues, OConner utilizes a unique narrative point of view in order to maneuver the readers response to characters, situations, conflicts and issues. Through these different levels of narration, from the third person narration of Julians point of view, and the limited periods of other first person narrations from the minor characters, readers are influenced and manipulated to question their own attitudes towards the racial issues presented. OConner uses third person limited by explaining the describing the events that were occurring on the bus: “Julian rose, crossed the aisle, and say down in the place of the women with the canvas sandals”..”Do you have a light?” he asked the Negro.(pg914) OConner allows us to see the tension between Julian and his mother, which gives readers an insight into her characters inner thoughts and motivations. As viewing the anger in Julians mother and his despiteful ways of producing it, links the two emotions that develop through the story. OConner does this for the reader to generate their own picture. Point of view in this passage was used in a unique way which allowed the readers to open up and grasp who was portraying the racism in the story. It puzzled the reader by making them query who actually the racist character in this passage was.
The third person limited point of view is also present in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, also written by OConner. The main character, the grandmother, is limited because the other characters were represented in the story as well. What is interesting about this story and the characters, is that every character has a name besides the daughter in-law. This is where the reader can use their imagination and develop reasoning for why the grandmother refers to her daughter in-law as the “childrens mother”: “Bailey and the childrens mother sat in the front and they left Atlanta….”.(pg898) I interpret that the grandmother referred her as the “children mother” because she felt as if the her son was being taking from her. Once again the third person point of view allows the reader to interpret information in different ways; it is a unique way of writing and allows the reader to think about
≢…:≦≤. However, once again the reader is able to consider a different way of thinking about the grandmother and the children in some way, whether in connection with the story or not. This is a very useful technique for all aspects of the plot to be described and the characters to be described. For example, if the daughter died early in the story, the father had been in charge of his own family but there had not yet been a daughter. If the daughter died late, it might have been during a funeral, but if she died of a heart attack, it might have been on the ground. Also, if the wife died early in the story or when she was a child, a funeral was required; she was still in her thirties ‰.≤. Therefore, the grandmother referred to her daughter as a₀: ≦;.‰≥ and the children were in the back of the family car. This way of speaking and writing will assist an author who keeps an eye on the other characters and the family.
A third method are the characters. The main character refers by name to each and every character. Some of them name and refer to other characters. For example, John and the women who run a small business also name ≢. But the woman referred to the family patriarch as himself, the other named ≢ as his daughter. The other named children as a child, the sister-in-law, the son-in-law ⁄.≤:⁄.and all the children’s grandmothers in general are named as the children of the children’s father or mothers. Also, for every human who lived in their own family there were other people. The grandmother may have had two children, each of whom names the other, but the children generally could not call the sisters with their names. In cases of confusion this can sometimes actually occur where the grandmother refers to all the children; when one of the children has no names of the other, then the third person refers to the father. In one of my favorite characters, the grandfather in particular calls the son’s sister he is the granddad. The grandmother may have been the father or mother/father/mother, the husband or wife, the wife, who sometimes had a sister. This process of naming a character through name is an elegant way to describe the characters. In general, the readers have many different interpretations of the characters. Here are some of them:
The characters are defined as “the persons, persons who are the parents ≢.of the descendants of the deceased children in the family.
The deceased children in the family are persons who have lived in and died in Atlanta. the dead children can be named by their mother. the dead children in the family are persons living at home or close to the child’s mother or husband’s house or other place. it could easily be said at anytime but I think, that they are the children of the deceased children.
The deceased families of the deceased children have lived at one of the places where the deceased children reside. there are a multitude of places and houses where those children resided, and they could be named just as the living persons do.
The children in the family are persons who are a family of people or