Example of Second Person Narration

The second person narration is the one narration in which speech appears narrated in second person: either from the singular (your) or the second person plural (you you). Therefore, the verbs will be conjugated for the second person: You come, you go out, you run, you pass, come, you have met, you look, etc.

The second person grammatical, remember, it is identified because the speech is addressed to someone who is present in the communicative act. In literature there is no receiver directly present, so narrating in the second person gives texts some peculiarities that neither the first nor the third person offer.

It is the type of narration less used in literature, since the most common is the first person narrator (I, we) or the third-person narrator, also known as omniscient

Characteristics of first-person narration

• The narrator addresses someone in a direct.
• The narrator can address the character as if it were a part of your conscienceor thought or, well, he addresses the character as if he were another character dictating what he should or should not do.
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• This type of narration gives the reader the feeling of himself being part of the speech and addressing the character in the story.
• This type of narration can also be part of epistolary novels or epistolary fragments. within a narrative, in which the speech is directed towards someone (usually another character in the story).
• The narrator can address the reader, and rebuke him in some way, thereby achieving a playful effect in which the reader of the story is made a participant. In this case, the second person narration is combined with another type of narration that predominates in the text (first or third person)

In this regard, we can distinguish, then, two types of narrator in the second person.

Types of second person narrator

1. Second person singular narrator (your). This narrator is the one who speaks to a singular entity, which, as we saw, can be the same character or a reader.

• For example: “You leave the room, you go to the basement and you try to find the origin of that strange noise that does not let you sleep "," Dear reader, are you sure you want to venture into these pages?".

2.Narrator in second person plural (your or you). This narrator is the one who speaks to a plural entity, which in the same way, can be the characters of the story or the virtual readers of the work.

• For example: “At that moment they feel that they have caused irreparable damage; they turn to look around them. Are you sure you will get out of this situation well? ”,“ Dear readers, you must excuse me. They will understand if I do not correctly describe the events that I will try to recreate from memory below "

• Continue reading: first person narration, omniscient narrator

10 Examples of second person narration:

Let's look at examples of second-person narration below. In each example the verb conjugations and the pronouns and adjectives in which this second grammatical person is evident in the speech are highlighted:

1. You go out from you home at a time most workers do, cleaning you still lagañas. Yawning across 14th avenue, and you go to take the same truck as always. What not you know, and still not even you imagine, on such an ordinary day, is that you life is about to change course.
2. Did you know in that instant that your chances of convincing them were almost nil. Was not you Yet in everyone's eyes, You would be guilty. Tea they would expel, tea would point... You reputation could not be the same. You decided act fast and take a chance. You walked towards Sergio's office, at that time he would surely be in the cafeteria eating lunch. That's how it went. The place was lonely; you entered Y you lit Computer. Almost tea the heart leaps when teayou gave account that there was no password.
3. It you surround arms, you feel breathing him close to you ear; it you hug with more force and you want May that moment continue like a postcard of an eternal idyll. Many years will pass and teayou will follow taking refuge in this memory.
4. Dearreaders, our character is in a critical situation and neither your nor do I know if he will survive. ¿you guys what would do to find yourself at this crossroads? Most people, cowards, would run away. The minority of the people, including our naive character, would act.
5. You hide the gun inside the pants, under the shirt. You know that with the baggy jacket it will be very difficult for them to realize that you go Only do you have a bullet and a chance. Above, the limited time: just ten minutes before the operation begins. You come in to the building from the back. No one tea has seen enter.
6. Could you leave but no teayou go on the side of him. The rest of the children have been absent, excusing any daily pretext. You remain there, in her illness, trying to remember her on better days. It is strange that images do not come to the imagination so easily; not remember When was the last time you saw your radiant mother, standing, without any disease destroying her body and her mind.
7. A stranger is tea He will approach on the street to ask you for directions to get to an address. Tea you will deny and you will follow moving forward, without realizing that the stranger has started walking right behind, in the same direction. Either teayou gave account that the address that tea showed is the same as now teayou direct: the central clinic.
8. Do not think that I do not know what is it so thinking right now: believe that my decision was bad. you guys, readers, from their comfortable armchairs, with its warm clothes and its coffee in hand, Ithey judge to me. you guysthey judge me with the hand of a tyrant god, as if really they will know me.
9. You will open the letter with a certain hope that it is from her. How you may to think that after so many months of not talking to her and she tea will look for? You feel a depressing disappointment to flip the letter over and see a government stamp. Again You have fallen in the trap of believing that she too tea strange.
10. You will love with superhuman strength; you will know which means giving everything up for someone and betting your whole life on a cause. You will want offer it all, promise it all, in order to keep that person at you But it will go away, no matter how much teaI weighed accept it, so it will be; because it will be someone fleeting and at that time not you will understand, but until a long time later, when the true love of you lifetime.

7 Examples of second person narration in literary texts:

Let's look at some examples of how second person narration is used in some fragments of literary texts. In each example, the narrative marks where the second person is distinguished (second person conjugated verbs, second person pronouns and adjectives) will be highlighted:

Example 1. Fragment of the novel Aura from Carlos Fuentes

• "The smell of humidity, rotten plants, will wrap you While trademarksyour steps, first on the stone tiles, then on that crunchy wood, flabby with humidity and confinement. Accounts quietly until twenty-two and you stop, with the box of matches in his hands, the briefcase pressed against the ribs. You touch that door that smells like old and damp pine; you seek a handle; you end up for pushing and feeling, now, a mat under your feet. A thin, poorly spread mat that tea will trip and to give you account of the new light, grayish and filtered, that illuminates certain contours "

Example 2. Fragment of the novel If one winter night a traveler from Italo Calvino:

• “Are about to start reading the new novel by Italo Calvino, If one winter night a traveler. just relax. Pick yourself up. Away from you any other idea. Let that the world that tea surrounds fades into the indistinct. The door is better closed; the television is always on on the other side. Say it then to the others: "No, I don't want to watch television!" He raises his voice, if they don't hear you: “I'm reading! I do not want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that noise; say it stronger, shouts: "I'm starting to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or not you say but you want; we hope that tea leave alone.

Adopt the most comfortable position: sitting, lying down, curled up, lying down. Lying on your back, on your side, face down. In an armchair, on the sofa, in the rocking chair, on the lounger, on the pouf. In the hammock, s do you have a hammock. On the bed, of course, or inside the bed. Also you may get upside down, in yoga posture. With the book reversed, of course ”.

Example 3. Excerpt from the tale You lay down next to you from Julio Cortazar

• When had I last seen him naked? It was hardly a question you were dating from the cabin, adjusting bikini bra while looking for the silhouette of its son who was waiting for her by the sea, and then that in full distraction, the question but a question without true will to respond, rather a lack abruptly assumed: Roberto's infantile body in the shower (…) you the puppy, you Roberto the puppy of Denise, lying on the beach looking at the seaweed that drew the limit of the tide, raising his head a little to look at her to you that he was coming from the booths, holding the cigarette between her lips as an affirmation as he you looked”.

Example 4. Excerpt from the tale Letter to a young lady in Paris from Julio Cortazar:

• “You have to love the beautiful closet in her bedroom, with the large door that opens generously, the empty tables waiting for my clothes. Now I have them there. In there. Truth that seems impossible; not even Sara would believe it. Because Sara suspects nothing, and whoever does not suspect anything comes from my horrible task, a task that takes my days and my nights in a single stroke of the rake and it burns me inside and hardens like that starfish that have you put over the bathtub and that each bath seems to fill one's body with salt and the lashes of the sun and great rumors of depth. "

Example 5. Fragment of The cannibal's daughter from Rosa Montero:

• Despite my nickname I am not very convinced that good luck exists. But I do know that there is misfortune. Misfortune is like a world without sun and without stars, a world parallel to the one we live in. One day, perhaps by carelessness, by chance, by clumsiness, you slide unintentionally to the shadow world. At first barely you warn the difference, at the beginning you ignore what you are wrong of reality. Something goes wrong, something goes wrong, pain occurs (…) ”.

Example 6. Fragment of the letter "Letter from Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra (unopened)" contained within the novel Dracula from Bram stoker:

• "My dear Lucy:

It seems to me that centuries have passed since I heard from you, or rather since tea wrote. I know that Iyou will forgive for all my faults when have you read the news that I'm going to give you. Well, I brought my husband back in good condition; When we got to Exeter a carriage was waiting for us, and in it, despite having a gout attack, Mr. Hawkins took us to his house, where there were rooms for us, all arranged and comfortable, and we had dinner. together. (…)I cried, Lucy dearwhile Jonathan and old Mr. Hawkins shook hands. We had a very, very happy evening (…) ”.

Example 7. Fragment of the novel The death of Artemio Cruz from Carlos Fuentes:

• “Your, Yesterday, did The same as everyday. Not you know if it's worth remembering. Alone would you like remember, lying there in the gloom of you bedroom, what will happen: You do not want foresee what has already happened. On you twilight, eyes look forward; they don't know how to guess the past. Yes; Yesterday you will fly from Hermosillo, yesterday April 9, 1959, on the regular flight of the Mexican Aviation Company that will depart from the capital of Sonora, where it will be infernal heat, at 9:55 in the morning and will arrive in Mexico, D.F., at 4:30 in point. From the four-engine seat, you'll see a flat gray city, an adobe belt and tin roofs. Stewardess tea will offer a chewing gum wrapped in cellophane - you will remember that in particular, because it will (should be, not think everything in the future from now on) a very pretty girl and your forever you will have good eye for that, even if your age condemns you to imagine things more than to do them (you use wrong words: sure, never tea you will feel condemned to that, even if you can only imagine it) (…) ”.

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