Questions: Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage? Brian shrugged. . . . But it ate at him. What they were going to do proved nothing. They were playing a game and it struck him that Derek did that-his whole life was that. He knew it was unfair to think of the man that way-he didn't, after all, know him very well. But he acted that way. Like it was all a game and Derek was approaching this whole business that way. Just a game. From Gary Paulsen, The River. Copyright 1991 by Gary Paulsen first person second person third person

The answer is third person.

The first person point of view uses pronouns like "I" and "we," and the narrator is a character within the story. In the passage, there are no first-person pronouns, and the narrator is not a character in the story.

The second person point of view uses the pronoun "you," addressing the reader directly. This passage does not use "you" or address the reader directly, so it is not in the second person.

The third person point of view uses pronouns like "he," "she," "they," and "it," and the narrator is outside of the story. In the passage, the narrator refers to the characters as "Brian" and "Derek" and uses pronouns like "he" and "him," indicating a third person point of view.