2. In “The Grasshopper and the Bell
Cricket,” the point of view (POV) used by
the author, Yasunari Kawabata, in telling
the story/ choosing the narrator, is an
important factor in understanding the
story’s theme.
7. Ann Charters defines “point of
view” as “the author’s choice of
narrator for the story”(1009)
<Charters, Ann. “Appendix 3: The Elements of Fiction.” The
Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact
6th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 1003-1015.>
8. <Charters, Ann. “Appendix 3: The Elements of
Fiction.” The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to
Short Fiction. Compact 6th Edition. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 1003-1015.>
19. Ann Charters defines “point of
view” as “the author’s choice of
narrator for the story”(1009)
<Charters, Ann. “Appendix 3: The Elements of Fiction.” The
Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact
6th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 1003-1015.>
Editor's Notes
The perspective of the narrator influences how you view what is occurring because the author is choosing what information you are given and who and how we receive it.Depending on the point of view, the information you are given may be biased, unreliable, or showing only a small aspect of the big picture. The point of view could likewise be endearing or convince us that what is going on is true. The point of view of a piece essentially gives the character or narrator a voice that communicates what is going on to us. A story written in a stream-of-consciousness style from a first-person point of view will give us a very different reaction to the theme than if that story was written in the third-person omniscient point of view.