Question

Read the following short passage.

I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment, I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright! The birds were chirping at the edge of the woods; and in the open field back of the sawmill the Prussian soldiers were drilling. It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles, but I had the strength to resist, and hurried off to school.
When I passed the town hall there was a crowd in front of the bulletin board. For the last two years all our bad news had come from there—the lost battles, the draft, the orders of the commanding officer—and I thought to myself, without stopping:
"What can be the matter now?"
Which point of view is used in this excerpt?
omniscient
objective
first person
limited omniscient

Answer 1

I think first person pov

Answer 2

The point of view in this excerpt is a first-person one.

Step-by-step explanation:

If a story is told from the character's perspective while using pronouns such as "I" or "me", we can identify the point of view as being in the first person. In other words, if the narrator of the story is, at the same time, a character in it, the point of view is not in the third person (omniscient), but in the first one.

Such a point of view is common in autobiographies, since the author is narrating events from his own perspective. It can, however, frequently appear in fiction as well. The narrator is not reliable, though. Since he or she is expressing his or her own opinion and knowledge of facts, readers cannot completely trust what is being told.