What is first person vs third person point of view?

Answer 1

depends on your skills in the both, personally I like reading when the author uses a third person view, but if the story is going about a person or a persons life, there is somewhat a better way of understanding him when you write first person.

Answer 2

1st person uses words like "I" and "we". In writing, it makes the view more limited; the reader only sees what the I/we sees/see.

First person:

"I went to the market yesterday, and smelled a peculiar spice I couldn't identify."

3rd person uses words like "he" and "they" and avoids saying "I" or "we". Creates a space between the reader and the narration. Can be a limited view, only showing what the "he" sees or it can be omniscient (all-knowing) and describe all that is going on around the "he".

Third person limited:

"Clara walked through the marketplace, and the aroma of spices surrounded her, pleasant, though she couldn't identify them."

Third person omniscient:

"Clara walked through the marketplace, vendors eying her as a potential customer and some admiring or envying her fine clothes. A scent tickled her senses, though she could not identify it. It was saffron from the stall she'd passed a few steps before where a man sat cross-legged on a straw mat, twirling a bit of straw in his hand and keeping a close eye on his precious spices."

Answer 3

First person point of view is when the narrator is a character in the story and refers to themselves as "I" or "we." Third person point of view is when the narrator is not a character in the story and refers to characters as "he," "she," or "they."

Answer 4

It depends it will be first person if it is a diary but generally stories are in third person which is watching on at what happens.

Answer 5

First person point of view is from YOUR own perspective, ie "I did this"

Third person is as if you are standing outside and describing what you see ie "The man ran fast"

Answer 6

It can be both, a narrator is someone who talks you through the book and describes whats happening, it can either be 1st or 3rd.

Answer 7

The narrator is 3rd point of view