This week was spent almost completely working on our “Elements of Fiction” project, which consists of two essay written in a group. Our two elements of fiction were Characterization and Point of view. We split up the work between the four people in our group. Josephine and Alexis wrote the characterization essay around the character Sonny from “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. Austin and I were tasked with writing an essay comparing and contrasting the use of point of view and how it effected the story in “The Boarding House” by James Joyce and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates. I enjoyed this assignment for two reasons. First, I enjoy both of the stories we used for this project. I have read multiple works by both James Joyce and Joyce Carol Oates before this project and reading more of their work as well as looking at it past it’s entertainment value was a useful experience. Second, I had never really thought about what point of view brings to a story before this project. Both of the stories that we looked at were both in a form of third person point of view. However, When looking at the difference between limited and omniscient it changes how one can look at the story. In “Where are you going, the point of view is third person limited, which creates a much more isolated mood and ups the creep factor in Oates's writing. In “The Boarding House” The Omniscient point of view creates a much more open story full of different information creating a larger less isolated picture.
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