There are seven elements of fiction. Looking at a story from a certain point of view “can make a big difference in how [readers] perceive it” (Writing about Literature). While reading “The Tenth of January” it was obvious that the story was being told from a third person point of view. This element of view point gives readers an insight into the story that may not have been there if the story was told from a first person point of view. “First-person narrators can be unreliable, as do not have access to all vital information, and their own agendas can often skew the way they see events” (Writing about Literature). One example, “The old man, left alone, sat for a while with his head sunk upon his breast. She was all he had in the world, this one little crippled girl that the world had dealt hardly with”. Immediately after that the narrator states “She loved him; but he was not, probably never would be, to here exactly what she was to him”. Readers are given the view point of the old man who is Asenath’s father as well as, Asenath herself. This element is insightful because readers are allowed into the minds of two characters at this particular moment.
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