Literature can reflect author relation to story {viewpoint, literature} {point of view, literature} {voice, literature}.
Characters {first-person observer} can observe and report action but have no action.
Characters {first-person participant} can participate in, and report on, action.
Authors {objective third person} can know no thoughts and not editorialize.
Authors {omniscient third person} can know character thoughts and actions. Authors {selective omniscient third person} {limited omniscient third person} can know one character's thoughts.
Authors {editorial observer} can comment on character thoughts or actions.
Naive people or children {innocent eye} can express author viewpoint in first person.
Authors {neutral observer} can make no comment on character thoughts or actions.
Persons {narrator} telling stories can express author thoughts.
Implied characters {mask character} can express author thoughts.
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