Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.
Mr. Streeter was a barber and owned his own shop. Orphaned as a teenager, he had raised his five younger siblings by cutting hair, stopping only for Army duty and two years of study at Miles College. Mrs. Streeter had graduated from Tuskegee University, just like both of her parents and five of her seven siblings. She worked as the youth director at the black YWCA.
The excerpt uses third-person narration, because
a character is sharing his personal history.
the author is speaking to the reader.
the author is sharing background information.
the author explains how the story ends.