Anna Xiaoyin Luo Mr. Dishart ENG3UZ - 11 13 July 2016 The Way of Narration Makes Difference Authors can choose to narrate their stories from a variety of points of view including third person. Emma Lee Warrior’s “Compatriots” is one text that uses third person point of view and this tends to be easier for the reader to understand the relationship between characters. Lee Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” is another text that uses the third person narrative to commentate the events in the story. Readers are able to more easily receive the details about the relationship between characters from the narrator. The following paper gives consideration to some examples from Warrior’s “Compatriots” and Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” of the third person point of view is utilised in differing ways. In “Sojourner’s Truth”, Maracle chooses to use first person and third person point of view to create a frame narration. The author starts the story with the first person point of view, and as the story going along, she brings up the idea of using third person to identify the relations between characters. The first sentence of the story states the way of narration being used by the author, it says “From inside my box, an ugly thought occurs to me” (Maracle 297). This proves that the story is being told from the perspective “I” with words like “me” and “my”. On the other hand, the use of first person point of view allows the story to have a more personal, subjective, and even intimate tone of voice. Readers can notice that the narrator of the story is dead by his own description “inside my box” (297), also “ugly thought” (297) can be considered as a foreshadowing to what the narrator is trying to refer to his relationships with other characters. While in “Compatriots”, Warrior chooses to focus on one narration — the third person point of view. The line “Lucy had an urge to