POINT
OF VIEW PRACTICE
Choose
from these points of view: first person, third person
1.
From Maniac
Magee by Jerry Spinelli
So he
turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the
street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West
End. Cars beeped at him, drivers hollered, but he never flinched. The Cobras
kept right along with him on their side of the street. So did a bunch of East
Enders on their side. One of them was Mars Bar. Both sides were calling for him
to come over.
2.
From From the Mixed-Up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,
by E. L. Konigsburg
Claudia
was furious . . . She refused to look at Jamie again and instead stared at the
statue. The sound of footsteps broke the silence and her concentration.
Footsteps from the Italian Renaissance were descending upon them! The guard was
coming down the steps. There was just too much time before the museum opened on
Sundays. They should have been in hiding already. Here they were out in the
open with a light on!
3.
From The Twenty-One Balloons by
William Pene du Bois
It is
funny that my trip has ended by being such a fast trip around the world. I find
myself referred to now as one of the speediest travelers of all times. Speed
wasn’t at all what I had in mind when I started out. On the contrary, if all
had gone the way I had hoped, I would still be happily floating around in my
balloon, drifting anywhere the wind cared to carry me – East, West, North, or
South.
4.
From Number the Stars by
Lois Lowry
One
of the soldiers, the taller one, moved toward her. Annemarie recognized him as
the one she and Ellen always called, in whispers, “the Giraffe” because of his
height and the long neck that extended from his stiff collar. He and his
partner were always on this corner. He prodded the corner of her backpack with
the stock of his rifle. Annemarie trembled. “What is in here?” he asked loudly.
“Schoolbooks,” she answered truthfully.
5.
From Missing
May by Cynthia Rylant
The
day after May didn’t come to us,
6.
From The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
He
himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his
face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once. But on the
first evening when he came to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking
that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who
was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was
blowing his nose to hide it.
7.
From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Maya Angelou
For
one whole semester the streetcars and I shimmied up and scooted down the sheer
hills of
8.
From The
Olympic Games by Theodore Knight
While
still a teenager, Lee met and began to train with some of the best divers in
the country, among them several former Olympians. One former champion – Farid Simaika the Egyptian 1928
silver medalist who had moved to this country—gave Lee a piece of advice that
he took to heart. He told the young diver that he might encounter prejudice in
competition because he was of Korean descent. Simaika
told Lee he would simply have to work twice as hard as other athletes. “You’ve
go to be so much better that they have to give you the medal,” Simaika said.
9.
From “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing
He
was an only child, eleven years old. She was a widow. She was determined to be
neither possessive nor lacking in devotion. She went worrying off to her beach.
As for Jerry, once he saw that his mother had gained her beach, he began the
steep descent to the bay. From where he was, high up among red-brown rocks, it
was a scoop of moving bluish green fringed with white.
10.
From “Pictures on a Rock” by Brent Ashabranner
One
spring day a few years before the
Navajo
boy named Fred Bia was
watching the family sheep flock in the arid countryside near the little town.
It was his daily chore to follow the sheep as they drifted over the red, rocky
earth in their endless search for grass and leaves of semi-desert plants.