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Zorluk: ZorTracking Point of View Shifts

Read the passage below:

The construction of the Queensboro Bridge was hailed by the city's press as a triumph of modern engineering, a testament to steel and human resolve that would link the boroughs. To the editors of *The Gazette*, the massive cantilever spans rising over the East River were symbols of progress, neat lines on a blueprint transformed into monumentality. They wrote glowingly of the thousands of tons of steel and the clean geometric lines that would redefine the skyline.

But up on the high iron, suspended two hundred feet above the churning gray water, the bridge was neither a blueprint nor a civic monument; it was a living, breathing beast of cold metal. *Just keep your eyes on the rivet head, don't look down at the tugboats, and pray the wind doesn't gust past thirty knots.* For Thomas, the grand union of Manhattan and Queens boiled down to the heat of the forge and the terrifying vibration of the temporary wooden footwalks under his boots. The grand abstractions of progress vanished in the face of a slippery steel beam and the very real possibility of a misstep.

Which of the following best describes the shift in point of view that occurs between the first paragraph and the second paragraph?

  1. A
    from an omniscient narrator's description of a city's growth to a first-person memoir of a retired steelworker
  2. B
    from a local journalist’s personal reflections on progress to a historical analysis of the bridge's engineering challenges
  3. from an objective, public account of the bridge's construction to a worker's subjective, immediate experience on the structureCevap
  4. D
    from a first-person narrative of a city planner to a third-person description of a laborer's daily routine

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from an objective, public account of the bridge's construction to a worker's subjective, immediate experience on the structure
The correct answer accurately describes the transition from the first paragraph, which presents a detached and public view of the bridge's construction based on newspaper reports, to the second paragraph, which focuses on the immediate, hazardous, and subjective experience of Thomas as he works on the structure.

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1
Analyze the perspective of the first paragraph.
The narrative begins by describing how the Queensboro Bridge's construction was reported by the public press (*The Gazette*), establishing a detached, objective, and public perspective on the bridge as a monument of progress.
Tracking a shift in point of view requires first establishing the initial narrative perspective.
2
Analyze the perspective of the second paragraph.
The narrative shifts to the immediate physical and psychological experience of Thomas, a worker high on the steel beams. The use of direct internal monologue (*Just keep your eyes on the rivet head...*) establishes a subjective, limited perspective.
Determining the final narrative perspective allows for comparison with the initial one.
3
Identify the nature of the transition between the two paragraphs.
The point of view transitions from the distant, public, and blueprint-focused perspective of the newspapers to the immediate, sensory, and hazard-filled subjective experience of a worker on the bridge.
Synthesizing the shift accurately describes the overall narrative progression.

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