In the twenty days since the river crossing at Bruinsburg, Mississippi, Grant had marched his troops 180 miles, inflicting 7,200 casualties at a cost of 4,300 of his own, winning five of five battles: Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, and Big Black River, and not losing a single gun or stand of colors.
When a narrator uses the word âIâ to tell most of the story, this is the first-person point of view. First-person point of view allows readers to see and hear what the narrator sees and hears and also allows them access to the narratorâs thoughts. A first person narrator is usually a major character in the story and is often the protagonist.
In the second-person point of view, the narrator refers to at least one character directly as you, suggesting that the audience is a character within the story. This is a common type of narrative point of view for popular music lyrics (in which the narrator often directly speaks to another person) and certain types of poetry, though it is quite rare in novels or short stories.