The Lovely Bones Lesson Plan

Narrative Perspective

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will understand the impact of narrative perspective on a story.

Structure:

Begin this activity by briefly discussing the narrative perspective of the novel, first-person omniscient. This is an uncommon narrative perspective, as normally, a first-person narrator cannot be omniscient.

Next, have the class read the article "The Advantages and Disadvantages of First-Person Perspective."

Then, continue the classwide discussion, where students will use the information from the article to consider the narrative perspective of the novel. Sebold breaks away from common narrative perspectives to...