Can first person work in a story? I'm writing a short 50

>>8842454
It can work. Your subject matter is a hell of a story so please write it, however you must.

>>8842454
Yes. I find great works are usually third-person, though.

>>8842461
I say this because I want to personalize the story to the reader -- so much so that every time something tragic or traumatizing happens to the first person, it's as if it happens to the reader.

I want people to know how terrible it all was. I mean, I'm not doing first person willy nilly because I suck at writing (I probably do though), but rather I just want the readers to really experience what happened in those schools, and what happened to their children and their children's children because of it. At least in part.

I mean at the end of it, I want people to at least shed a tear from reading it, or may be just feel a tug in their stomach at how fucked up the whole thing was.

I know this takes a lot of skill to do that sort of thing, but it's something I'm willing to spend years on, so I want every detail right

/lit/'s most celebrated short story artist: jorge luis borges wrote a lot in first-person

>>8842475
That's a great point, and I think that because the narratie is so relevant to your own life it is probably the right choice to take it down that first person avenue. Good luck.

>>8842484
I'll look at some of his works, thank you for pointing me in a direction