is there a difference between if i was narrating and if it was from my point of view? i was reading up on a book and it said the narrator was Person A and then under that for the point of view it said it was Person B. why is that?
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As a narrator, you are able to tell the story through any character's eyes and not include your own personal viewpoints. You tell what that one (or many) characters are feeling, saying, thinking, etc. As the narrator, you tell us (the reader all we need to know. However, if the story is being told from your point of view then that makes you an actual character in the story. Thus, you have something to say, feel, think, or do and we as readers must understand those things and you.
Nathan D
The narrator tells the story from a certain point of view. It can be a character's point of view, the narrator's point of view, or an omniscient (or limited omniscient) point of view.
The narrator is different because he or she is the voice of the story where the POV are the eyes and ears of the story.
We read it with Narrator's words, but we see and hear it with Character's eyes and ears.