I want to know if this is FIRST PERSON!?

Question

I have to write an essay, but I CAN NOT use first person...And I wrote the following..:
"Would you risk your life for a loved one"?
Is that first person?
Becuase I thought it was when I used the word YOU..Please hellpppp!

I wrote "Would you risk your life for a loved one? Would you consider taking yours if it meant they would keep theres? This was asked in the movie John Q..."

I LOVE ALL OF YOU...ITS 5:30 IN THE MORNING AND I HAVE DO GET THIS PAPER DONE!!!! I PRETTY MUCH GOT IT THO..its not first person..THANK GOD! I woulda have to written it from all overr!!
Well don't know how to conclude this buttt...heres my myspace =]
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Answer 1

"You" usually indicate the second person, but not in the case of this question. The question that you quote from the film is not a piece of narrative - it doesn't describe events that happened/are happening, so it is not any kind of -person!

A proper example of second person narrative - where the reader invites the reader to imagine that events are happening to him or her - would be something like "You wake up and find yourself in a dark room. Bleary-eyed, you feel your way around until you find a doorknob."

First person - where the narrator is talking about events that happened/are happening to him/herself - would be "I woke up and found myself in a dark room..."

Third person - where the narrator is talking about events that happened/are happening to someone else (other than the reader) - would be "He/She woke up....."

Answer 2

I would need a little more of the paragraph to make sure. Someone is asking a question. Unless you added I asked to it, it doesn't look first person. What's the rest of the paragraph?

Answer 3

I think that is written in the first person. Not sure.

Answer 4

YOU is second person,but maybe I see your point, you are there as the asker of the question, However the voice of the writer or storyteller is always there.

here's first person: "I want to know if this is FIRST PERSON!?"

here's second person: "You want to know if you are using FIRST PERSON."

and what your instructor probably wants is third person, like this: "he wants to know if he is using FIRST PERSON."

Answer 5

Yes it is second person it seems.

1st "I, me, we"
2nd "You, your, ya'll"
3rd "He, she, they"
4th - most people don't know about it but 4th person is like from the perspective of a god-like figure. It is similar to 3rd person, but 3rd person is sort of distant from the topic, like it is describing things but doesn't really refer to who is speaking at all. 4th person is from a more personal source, yet sees everything. It is hard to explain, few people can write it well.

Answer 6

Nope. NOT first person.

First person is: "Would *I* risk *my* life for a loved one?"

Answer 7

No that is not first person. If you wrote about yourself, that is first person.

Answer 8

Very deep and profound

Answer 9

the first person is "I", referring to yourself