Question

Choose either "To Build a Fire" or "The Piece of String." How does the use of third-person omniscient point of view affect the story and the reader? Use evidence from the story as support.

Answer 1

In "To Build a Fire" the use of third-person omniscient changes the way the reader. The narrator can know all the thoughts and actions. This means the reader easily know what the character is thinking. You can experience what the character is thinking thought his eyes. This builds sympathy for the character. For example, when the man in "To Build a Fire" was trying to survive you felt sympathy for him.

Answer 2

third person uses a point of view that only its the readers thoughts like the man in to build a fire all you read in his thoughts so how it affects the story is how you read .