Bible Interpretation, Student Workbook, SW05

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B I B L E I N T E R P R E T A T I O N

C. Watch for the Author’s Point-of View and Voice .

1. What are the author’s comments about the character’s actions and words?

2. What person is the story being written in?

a. The view of the Spirit (in literature, the omniscient view)

b. The First-Person view (telling one’s own story: Nehemiah)

c. The Third-Person narrator

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3. What “voice” is it being written in: “Voice is the attitude toward everything observed” (John Leggett).

D. Detect the underlying Plot Development within the story.

1. Try to outline the basic development of the story (beginning, middle, ending).

2. Note the classic elements of Plot structure — John Leggett

a. Doormat — how does the story introduce itself?