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point of view

Essential Question: How can points of view from the narrator and the characters change the plot of the story?

Third Person

First Person

Verb Moods

By: Ivan Urzua, Victor Soriano, Julissa Solito

Third Person

  • The third person uses words like he , she , They , it
  • its told in the way that person is reading from outside kind of like a narrator
  • is not a character

Example from story: "Old Musoni raised his dusty eyes from his hoe and the unchanging stony earth."

Verb moods

There is five different verb moods

-Indicative

-Imperative

-Interrogative

-Conditional

-Subjective

that an author uses to convey emotion to the text

Indicative

Indicative is a fact or opinion used in an authors writing

Examples

- 1 mile is 1.60934 kilometers

- The earth is round

Indicative

Imperative

Imperative is a command or a request used by a character in a story

- Clean your room

- Don´t drop that

Imperative

Interrogative

A question asked in a story

- Why did you leave?

- Did you get the groceries?

Interrogative

Conditional

Something needs to happen for another thing to processed

- His hair got shorter

- She did not make it to the party

Conditional

Subjective

a hope, wish, or hypothetical

- I wish I had superpowers

- I hope I get good grades this year

Subjunctive

Questions

First Person

  • First Person- a literary style of the narrator explaining the story in their own words.
  • The singular form for first-person is "I", "My".
  • The plural form for first-person is "Us", "We"

The Setting Sun and The Rolling World

Examples from "The Settling Sun and the Rolling World"

  • "We have a home, poor though it is."
  • "I have thought everything over father, I am convinced this is the only way out."
  • "I have this one chance of making my own life."
  • "I am armed more than you think and wiser than you can determine."

Real-Life Situations

Examples from Real World

  • I saw the fight that occurred yesterday between the 8th graders.
  • We held a party for my brother's birthday.

Summary

The Setting Sun and The Rolling World

The story is called,"The Setting Sun and The Rolling World", it was written by Charles Mungoshi, and it is a short story. The story is about a man who finds out that his son wants to leave home to have his own life. Throughout the story, the man asks his son a lot of questions, concerning his son's future. The man is afraid for his son and his future and he later realizes that he has nothing to be concerned about and that he should be proud for his son. In the end, he still cannot look at his son and thinks about the other possible future that he would've had if his son stayed home.

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