In the short stories Antojos and The storyteller third person narration is used in the stories. Both stories have third person but they are divergent from each other, but also somewhat similar to each other in a way. Antojos uses third person limited point of view. Third person limited means the narrator only knows the thoughts and feeling of a character and in The storyteller third person omniscient is used. Omniscient point of view is similar to limited but the narrator knows everything like all the characters thoughts and feeling and the past and future in the story. Although the narration of the two stories are different they also have similarities. In this essay it will explain the comparisons and contrasts of Antojos and The storyteller.
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Antojos uses third person limited meaning when you read the story you can only see things from one person's point of view. In the case of Antojos you see the story in Yolanda's point of view. The narrator starts off the story by saying straight up who is the main character. “For the first time Yolanda had reached the hills.” is the first sentence in the story of antojos. Third person omniscient is used in The storyteller. When reading the short story The storyteller you start off by seeing the point of view in the aunt's eyes telling her story to the three little kids on the train. Then after the story the kids start talking and giving their opinions and comments on the aunt's story. “It’s the stupidest story i ever heard,” said the bigger of the small girls. “ I didn't listen after the first bit, it was so stupid,” said Cyril. The narrator switches in between character in The storyteller other than Antojos that is only viewed by Yolanda's view. Another difference in between the stories is that The storyteller is a story within a story and Antojos is a story that does not tells stories but it does give us information of Yolanda's life in memories other than her telling a story. The narrator in The storyteller used third omniscient to make the story within the story happen. There is two stories in the short story, the aunt’s and the bachelors. Antojos tells us thing in a different way and that is in memories.
Antojos uses third person limited meaning when you read the story you can only see things from one person's point of view. In the case of Antojos you see the story in Yolanda's point of view. The narrator starts off the story by saying straight up who is the main character. “For the first time Yolanda had reached the hills.” is the first sentence in the story of antojos. Third person omniscient is used in The storyteller. When reading the short story The storyteller you start off by seeing the point of view in the aunt's eyes telling her story to the three little kids on the train. Then after the story the kids start talking and giving their opinions and comments on the aunt's story. “It’s the stupidest story i ever heard,” said the bigger of the small girls. “ I didn't listen after the first bit, it was so stupid,” said Cyril. The narrator switches in between character in The storyteller other than Antojos that is only viewed by Yolanda's view. Another difference in between the stories is that The storyteller is a story within a story and Antojos is a story that does not tells stories but it does give us information of Yolanda's life in memories other than her telling a story. The narrator in The storyteller used third omniscient to make the story within the story happen. There is two stories in the short story, the aunt’s and the bachelors. Antojos tells us thing in a different way and that is in memories.