Second Person Perspective

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This novel is told from the perspective of you, the reader, as Nick Hall. This would make this novel told in second person perspective. “The next morning you throw the covers off, lace your cleats, grab your burgundy and blue headband that matches your Barcelona jersey (which you slept in) , throw your clothes in the hamper like he asked you to do two days ago and tiptoe down the stairs.” This texted evidence proves my claim because it shows Nick getting ready for the day but the author uses second person perspective words such as “you” and “your”. If this novel was told in from the perspective of Nick, instead of saying “you” and “your” it would have used word like “I” and “my”. If it were told in third person perspective it would have said

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