'The Smell Of Fresh Paint'

Short stories, books, and articles are almost always written in either 1st or 3rd person. 1st person writing is when the story is told through one character’s eyes, while 3rd person is written to show the story from a narrator’s unbiased perspective. 3rd person often include partial thoughts of many characters. The narrative account is the way a story is told, so it would either be 1st or 3rd person. Written by Tina M. Beller, “The Smell of Fresh Paint” is a letter written to Tina’s parents.. The story is about Iraqi insurgents launching a rocket strike at an abandoned Iraqi Palace Tina was poised at. Written by Amy Vaughan, “International Reality Consultants, LTD,” is a fictional story that revolves around an unknown main character, and is written in 1st person. The story follows the main character to an unknown building, where it hears a man expressing his opinions to others. It believes the man is a bad person because of a question it asked, and makes the whole agency …show more content…
This is because a 1st person shows a person and all his personal thoughts about an event they were involved in. A 3rd person narrative would just describe what happened, and maybe have a quote or two of a person who really experienced it. Tina Beller tells her parents, “I am sure by now you can read the news and know that we were severely attack with a barrage of rockets yesterday morning, your night time. At any rate, I am just writing to let you know that physically I remain unharmed. Emotionally and mentally is a different story.” What Tina Beller means is she was emotionally devastated by the events that only she could describe herself, as she was there to experience it. Mentioning the news, she cannot express her personal feelings through a 3rd person news article entirely and as most effectively, which is why she wrote to her