Monday, April 25, 2011

Perspective

Different perspective can make a story totally different because the feeling you get from the different perspectives  can be extremely different. You can read a story and think the main character is a hero without a doubt and another person can read the same story in a different perspective and think the same character is very evil. Perspective is different when different people are telling the story because people are often biased and when people are bias people influence the way they tell the story even though they didn't mean to. For example, when two people are telling the same event, one might say, "He killed the poor little puppy that didn't deserve to die while pushing the old lady aside." and another might say, "He heroically stepped in front of the truck, saved the old lady by pushing her away." This is an example of two opposite extreme. While, reading the first one, you see a reckless person pushing an old lady and for some reason killed a little dog. When another person read the second line, the person would think that the person is very brave without a flaw because they know nothing about him killing a dog. This is what perspective does to the reader. Different perspective can twist the story and give as totally different feeling by not providing certain information, using different adjective, different word choice, or by describing the event in a way that praises or scolds someone.

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