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Third Person Point Of View In Cujo By Stephen King

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In the story, “Cujo,” the author Stephen King writes a thriller story about a mother, Donna Trenton, and her four-year-old boy, Tad, fighting to survive while stranded in their car in the middle of a heat wave, with help nowhere to be found. The mother and son are surrounded by a St. Bernard named Cujo, that was bitten by a wild animal and has become rabid, out for blood. Stephen King uses third person point of view to reveal Donna’s thoughts and emotions to create suspense. The author uses third person point of view by using pronouns like he, she, it or they. Stephen King uses third person point of view by telling how Donna is feeling and what Donna’s thoughts are. When Donna sees Cujo, she was very scared which made her clumsy and think negatively. Author …show more content…

Cujo's growl rose to a shattering roar of rage and he charged at her. Her feet almost skidded out from under her in the loose gravel, and she was only able to recover by slamming her arm down on the Pinto's hood. She hit her crazybone and uttered a thin shriek of pain. The car door was shut. She had shut it herself, automatically, after getting out. The chromed button below the handle suddenly seemed dazzlingly bright, winking arrows of sun into her eyes. I'll never be able to get that door open and get in and get it shut, she thought, and the choking realization that she might be about to die rose up in her. Not enough time. No way. " The author makes the readers feel nervous and adds tension when Donna freezes up, thinks negatively, falls and bumps onto many things. This creates tension when Cujo is casing Donna while she is staggering all over the place and the readers feel as if Cujo will spring onto Donna at any moment because she is so slow. When the author says that "the dog was looking at her, not at a woman who just happened to be trapped in her car with her little boy, but at Donna Trenton, as if he had just been hanging around, waiting for her to show

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