Every story, whether written or oral, is told by someone. Sometimes the narrator is clearly pointed out to the reader and sometimes not. Whom the author chooses as a narrator or as narrators affects everything from the events that they can tell the readers to the words and attitudes they use. The author does not arbitrarily choose methods of revealing his character but rather selects the method in keeping with his chosen point of view. The point of view of a story is the narrator's relation to the fictional world of the story and to the minds of the characters in it. When we read fictions, we automatically agree to a "contract" with the author; we agree to be willing to accept as imaginatively true what h tells us. In return we expect the author to keep to the terms of the bargain terms he himself sets when...