Re: Third person


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Posted by Robert Hill on October 14, 2007 at 19:37:58 from 195.92.168.165 user eclrh.

In Reply to: Re: Third person posted by David Bamford on October 12, 2007 at 20:56:46:

If you were writing a true-life account of some adventure or exploration in which you had been personally involved, you would naturally write it in the first person. You wouldn't be likely to refer to yourself as 'he' or 'she'.

If you were writing a fictional work which you wanted to have something of the same 'feel' you might well therefore use first person. Hence Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon, Moby Dick etc.

Novels written in the first person have possibly always been in the minority, but they include a fair number of the best-known and best-loved stories. Tristram Shandy, David Copperfield, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Rebecca, ...

AR's books are however collective, not individual.



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