Different points of View - First person and Third Person

Both first person and third person points of view have their own advantages.

Advantages of First person POV:

1. The narrator is mostly involved in the story
2. The narrator can experience most feelings firsthand
3. Certain stories can make use of unreliable narrators - Information can be filtered by the narrator to show only certain POVs

Disadvantages:

1. Character has limited vision only.
2. No access to other Characters' thoughts.

Advantages of Third Person POV:

1. Allows access to all of the thoughts of the characters
2. Omniscient and Omnipresent narrator - able to see things and narrate the story in non chronological order. For example, the omniscient narrator can skip foward slightly - "Jane thought it was all over, but little did she know that more was to come." However, first person narrators cannot do so unless it is a flashback.

Disadvantages:

1. The reader can feel alienated from the characters if they are not elaborated upon well.