Journal Entry Assignment 10.1: From Their Perspective…This week’s lecture notes address the different points-of-view from which a story can be told. The stories from this week are all told from the perspective of a narrator in either the omniscient or the third person limited point-of-view. Examine “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”, “Soul Gone Home”, “Button, Button” and “A Rose for Emily” and consider how these stories may have been different if they were told from the first person point-of-view. How might the stories have changed if they were told from the perspective of one of the main characters? What insights would the reader have gained if Emily or one of her servants had told her story? Would the readers have gained a better understanding of why Norma pushed the button on the box if the story had been told in the first person perspective from her point of view? Please address these questions in a two to three page journal entry. Your journal entry must be typed in double spaced, 12pt Times New Roman font with one inch margins at the top, bottom, left, and right. Be sure to number your pages and put your name, my name, the course, and the date in the top left hand corner of the page.
These are the links to the shorts stories:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/english/2010/text_dependent_questions/text_dependent_question_text_high_2_story-of-an-hour.pdf
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html
https://www.greensburgsalem.org/cms/lib/PA01001409/Centricity/Domain/467/Button%20Button%20by%20Richard%20Matheson.pdf
