Differences between first, second and third person:
Chi points out that we have the tendency to switch from the present to the past, when going to the third person (and Zeyu agrees) and of course in the present tense there is much more a sense of urgency; Myra says that in the second person the reader feels he/she is being told what to do (William, Zeyu, Myra, Roshelle agree); Elizaveta goes even further when she says this voice sounds like a “command”; Zeyu also points out that even in the first person, he feels he is “watching” a show, but in the second he is more involved; William seems to agree when he says that both the first and third person make the reader feel like an observer of someone else doing the action (and Vyonna reminds us that the second person seems to naturally get the reader more involved); Crystal makes an interesting comment when she says that the third person seemed “more natural” because it is “a story without my emotion in it;” (Sabera agrees) yes, it seems more distant to me, too; Brian says the reader is so immersed in the action, in the second person, that “we are able to not only know what the main character is thinking, but also what the rest of the world is like in detail;” Gagandeep says the reader feels that the narrator is speaker to the reader, directly; Zeyu and Radia both feel the text seems “smoother” in the first person (interesting!) Denny makes a very interesting comment about his group’s passage, that in the second person it seems as is Aura is being “bossed around” much more than in the first person, that she seems more of an “object” in the second person (very interesting!) Kelly (and others) actually felt she needed to add some connecting words in the third person version (to make it more “story” like?); Mel says that she felt much more connected to the protagonist in the second person (as opposed to the third) and she also feels that gender plays much more of a role in the third person. Mel also points out that in the second person the narrator “is demanding me to think in a certain way;” Mark points out an interesting sentence in the novel, which he says shows that the third person is used to create a point of observation for both the characters and the reader; Interestingly, Emily feels it’s easier to read a story if you’re are “watching” a character rather than feel you actually are the character; Zuzanna feels the second person helped keep her attention.