From the course: The Foundations of Fiction

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Third person (foundation)

Third person (foundation)

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Third person (foundation)

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- 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…

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