I crept quietly toward the lakeshore with my camera. I knew the egret's nest was nearby. Suddenly-snap! Oh, no, I had stepped on a twig! When I looked up, the egret was flying away.
The egret's nest was nearby. Suddenly, I stepped on a twig. Snap! I looked up and saw the big bird flying away.
The first-person point of view refers to the narrator with words such as <em>I, my </em>and <em>mine</em>. It is used to make readers closer to the narrator, allowing them to get to know his or her feelings, motifs and inner thoughts.
As a former slave, Frederick Douglass felt that education is the only way to break the chains of slavery. An educated man is free from ignorance and cannot be enslaved, so slaves should strive to get educated by any means possible.
