Third person (foundation)

- Oh, whatcha reading, Jess?…- Oh, my favorite, Game of Thrones.…- Oh, I've never read it.…- It's really great, do you want to hear how it starts?…- Oh yeah, I'd love to.…- [Jessica] ""We should start back," Gared urged…"as the woods began to grow dark around them.…""The wildlings are dead."…""Do the dead frighten you?"…"Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.…"Gared did not rise to the bait.…"He was an old man, past fifty,…"and he had seen the lordlings come and go.…""Dead is dead," he said.…""We have no business with the dead."…- Okay so I heard some he's, them's,…and the name Gared in those opening sentences.…

- Exactly, A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin…is a classic example of a third person point of view…which, remember, is a story told…from a narrator's point of view as if the narrator…is looking down and watching the character…or characters to see what they're up to.…- Right, and this point of view…is perhaps the most common in fiction.…All the old fairy stories are told that way…and the majority of classic novels are also…