The story is being told from the "I" voice, a singular narrator, usually the protagonist, who tells the story from her/his perspective using I, or me. This point of view can be limited, and often does not allow readers to learn about the interior motives of the other characters. If the "I" voice is not credible, then the story suffers.
First person point of view is often used in autobiography ( a story about one's life) or memoir ( a story about a specific aspect or period of one's life).
Poignant examples of first person point of view are: Richard Wright's American Hunger and Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals. More recently, Edwidge Danticat's memoir, Brother, I's Dying, is a moving tribute to her father and uncle.
The first point of view, the "I" voice, is a powerful place from which to tell one's story with candor, and speak one's truth.
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