Second Person Narration: Difference between revisions

* The narrator of Marvel Comics's ''Dracula'' summarizing the previous issue: "Your name is Frank Drake and you are having a bad day. Your girlfriend has just been killed, turned into a vampire, and you had to kill her again (or something like that). You have came to the bridge to commit suicide."

* ''[[The Sentry]]'' 2000 and 2005 miniseries apparently use [[Second Person Narration]] to represent the protagonist's internal monologue, which creates a claustrophobic effect: the Sentry is a character metaphorically and somewhat literally trapped in his own head. This is kind of weird when the perspective shifts to Reed Richards or the Hulk in the crossover issues, because it begins to feel like the author dictating to them the mental tongue baths they are giving the Sentry, but then becomes awesome again in ''The Sentry vs. the Void'', which wraps up the 2000 miniseries, when it becomes apparent that the Sentry is ''supposed'' to be a [[Canon Sue]]:

You're better than Jesus. Tick. }}

* {{spoiler|Morpheus'}} wake in the "The Wake", the tenth volume of ''[[The Sandman]]'', is narrated this way, and to great effect.

* Tim Waggoner's [http://timwaggoner.com/portraitof.htm Portrait of a Horror Writer].

* A book on writing, rife with examples, said that second-person rarely worked. The example used, which did, implied that there was an "I" which somehow never came up. Paraphrased:

* Same in ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'', but without examples.

* French novel ''99 Francs'', a satire on the world of publicity by Frederic Beigbeder, is divided in sections in which the narration is built around the pronoun which is the title of the section: Je, Tu, Lui, Elle, Il, Nous, Vous, and Ils.

* Rosamond Lehman's ''Dusty Answer'' sometimes switches to this from third person, forcing the reader to closely identify with the heroine. Could this be why it was her most insanely popular novel, leading to multiple marriage proposals? Could be.

* Ricardo Arjona's "Si usted la viera(el confesor)" recounts to you a conversation between the narrator and a priest during confession, the whole discussion is about you ("you" being a woman of doubtful reputation).

* The song "Mineshaft 2" by rapper/singer Dessa.

''And that it's hard to ask it, but he's calling with a question...'' }}

** The chorus and first two verses are entirely in second person, with only the last verse switching to first person in a way that makes it clear the song is about Dessa herself.