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LESSON NOTES

                 First Person Narration                       Third Person Narration
                      Is told from the perspective of a         Is told from the perspective of a narrator
                      participant in the story, usually the       who is not involved in the story
                      main character                             Personal pronouns ‘I’ would change to he,
                      Use of personal pronouns: I, me ,we,       my to his, me to him, we to they, etc.
                      us                                                                       The outside narrator can also indicate what
                      possessive adjective: my.                   all the characters are thinking.
                      Only having a storyteller’s
                      perspective.

                  My name is Lemuel Gulliver, and I must        Lemuel Gulliver's adventures had been a
                  confess, my adventures have been a            curious mix of the marvelous and the
                  curious mix of the marvelous and the          frightening. He had embarked upon his voyage
                  frightening. I embarked upon this voyage      with a simple desire for more than a life of
                  with the simple desire for more than a life   routine, driven by a yearning for the unknown.
                  of routine, a yearning for the unknown.       His heart had been filled with a kind of restless
                  My heart was filled with a kind of restless   spirit, a need to see and experience what lay
                  spirit, a need to see and experience what     beyond the familiar shores.
                  lay beyond the familiar shores
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