Analysis * We start out with a short summary:
Write a short summary to show, in chronological order, what the text is about. Many will choose to put the analytical elements required into their summary, which makes it look a bit more professional. This way of writing an analysis makes it easier to keep to the essay genre. However, many of you may find it quite a lot easier to simply write a summary first, and then write an analysis at the end by making a list of the points required. It is up to you.

* Point of view.

When you want to find out a novel or short story’s point of view, you also analyze your own experiences and encounters with the characters and events. The way the story is told, the author’s chosen narrator(s), will play a large part in how much insight you get into the story and its characters. In other words: how well you will get to know the characters and the events relies a lot on the narrator (fortelleren). Therefore you should take a close look at the novel’s point of view, and write a paragraph about how the point of view allowed you to understand, like or identify with the characters, the events and the content in general.
It is particularly common to write in the first and third person, yet, omniscient or God-like perspective or point of view is also frequently used. (“Guds” perspektiv - allvitende) It can also be that a story is narrated in the third person perspective, but contains an omniscient perspective as well. 1. First person: The narrator refers to: I, me, us or we - which allows us to really get to know the main character and the events in his/her life. However, it often gives a restricted or partial knowledge of other characters and the events in their life. A first person point of view makes it easier to identify with the main character/protagonist; in fact, it often makes you sympathize and identify