Chapter+6


 * First Person Narrators**: the person telling the story speaks directly to the reader as "I" and he or she is also the "eye" of the story
 * The narrator remains at the center of things
 * The narrator's personality selects, shapes, and colors everything we see and hear
 * First person narrators are incapable of complete objectivity
 * They may be central participants or observers


 * Third Person Narrators**
 * Objective Observers: simply recount the events, incidents, dialogue, and activity that could be related by any reasonable individual present at the scene
 * Are often the most reliable of storytellers because they tell what has verifiably occurred
 * Allows an audience to deduce relationships, attitudes, and temperament for themselves
 * Omniscient Observers: have all the powers of an objective observer but can also access the internal life of the characters
 * Provides us with access to the past, future, and internal lives of the characters
 * Also has the ability to withhold information at crucial times


 * Action**: the sequence of visible or discernible physical happenings, the movement that courses through events


 * Plot:** the term used to describe the scheme/plan of the action
 * Orders action and arranges it in a pattern
 * May involve psychological or physical action


 * Crisis:** the turning point of the action
 * It is the point after which there can only be one resolution
 * Conflict is essential in a narrative; it causes action and plot


 * Characters & Dialogue**
 * Direct Discourse: the verbatim recording of the words the character is speaking (ex./ when there are tags like "she said")
 * Indirect Discourse: reports the words the characters spoke and depends on an articulated or assumed "that" (ex./ "she admitted she loved and adored chocolate cake")
 * Narrator Transformed Discourse: when the narrator has clearly adopted the characteristic diction and figures of speech of the character