: What really is Second person view?

Question

I’ve seen first person view, I’ve seen third person view, but never second person.

In: Other

Answer 1

Think of Choose Your Own Adventure, or Zork.

Second person –

You wake up in a forest. There is dappled sunlight coming through the canopy. To your east you can hear a babbling brook. What do you do?

Vs

1st person –

I woke up in a forest. I could see sunlight filtered through the canopy above. To my east I could hear a babbling brook.

Vs

3rd

He woke in a forest. He could see sunlight filtered through the trees. To his east, he heard a babbling brook.

2nd person doesn’t get used a lot in fiction in general, but I remember the short story “Paper Slippers” being pretty effective.