ENGLISH 3PT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mockumentary

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3PT3
• Professor: Professor Blair Hurley

Document Summary

Control and power: the 3rd person narrator can control and manipulate his/her characters at will, shaping the story. Access: can access the mind and feelings of a character, even the feelings that the character will not admit to his or her self. Insight: can offer wisdom and truth to the situation, showing us why people act the. Analysis: can reflect on the larger meaning of a situation, or draw parallels between. Manipulation: the power the 3rd person narrator has to leave or join a scene can feel manipulative and artificial. Overanalyses: the temptation is to over- explain, over- analyze, telling the reader too much about what something means, what a character is feeling, or why we should care. Ex) the da vinci code artificial breaks in suspense. 3rd person roving limited limited access to one person at a time. * when you think about your pov in your story you make your pov but then you.