Social Action Critical Thinking Question: Are the present p.o.v.'s ones that would be overshadowed if the other's were there?

   In my independent reading book, Catwalk by Deborah Gregory,  the main character, Pashmina Perrstein is the character who's voice and thoughts you hear often... better classified as the narrator. Although that is the case, you also hear secondary and other characters p.o.v. as well! Personally, I don't know many books that have this type of structure such as the case of hearing more than one's point of view. I like the fact that Deborah Gregory did this because you get to hear different sides of what others are thinking than just  looking through the main character's eyes and stepping into their shoes. You see Pashmina's view, you see her friend's; Angora Felinez and Aphro's view, and you see her moms' view. You hear what each person thinks about whatever is happening or going on. For example, if Pashmina says,
   " The catwalk competition is almost here and we haven't gotten much time to waist! I haven't seen anyone picking up the pace around here..." Then Angora's dialogue would be, " Hey! I have been putting in the work and time into this competition! I've been helping you with your walks and helped you to study on focusing!" This has been happening almost my whole life! My friends always forget about the work I put into things...I just don't think it's right! I'm not going to accept this and there has to be away that I can wake her up and show her the time and effort I put into helping her and other people!
   So you see that you get a peek of what's going on through other character's minds and not just observing what they say and making your own guesses on how they might be feeling at each moment of time. I think that the author does this because it's important to see other's perspectives of things so that you can understand what kind of things are going through their heads.
   Therefore, in this book, there aren't any overshadowed voices because the author probably realized the same thing that I have which is that it's good to hear other's perspectives of things so that you can understand and know what kinds of thoughts are going through their heads.

MY THOUGHTS...

  In Freak the Mighty, I thought that this book had a couple of valuable lessons. One of them was that there are two roads to take in life and you can only walk down one. You can switch to another path once you feel a little insecure about the one you've started to take, but you can only walk down one that you feel most honest, secure, and right to glide down in. Just know that which ever one you choose, whether it's good or dishonoring, it's YOUR CHOICE and not anyone else's.
  Another lesson (most likely half theme-half lesson) is that you have to be yourself. You only have one body, not two, so it's pretty much impossible to be someone else. We all have someone or something we look up to, but while admiring their/ it's way of being, it's important to live with your basics (your natural characteristics). For example, a part in this book that I relates to this is when Freak says that he wants a bionic body. He wants this because he admires robots/robotics and technology and he ignores who he already is! So therefore, I think that these lessons are very valuable to keep in mind in our lifetime because without it, we wouldn't have a motivational guidance within ourselves to tell us what it is that will help keep us having inner confidence and live a well planned and successful life.

Freak the Mighty: My conclusion

   When I was reading the book, Freak the Mighty , the feelings of sorrow and sadness, curiosity and confusion, surprising and breath taken because there are so many parts in the book that are very well detailed to the point where it makes you literally carry on emotions for each part you read. I think that the author meant to do this because he most likely wants the reader to not just read the story, but to feel it as well.
   The details that I've noticed now that I probably haven't noticed before is that, every time Freak opened his mouth, either it was extreme knowledge about words or robots gravitating towards Max or it was yelling orders and commands to people such as the movers (in the book).
   The themes that I tracked in this book where some like: "Trust your dignity and your inner conscience because that is most likely the answer to all your questions, confusions, problems and/or wishes (dreams)."
"Hold on to the ones you love or appreciate most because they will eventually be "on your side" or  "one of you consciences guiding you into the right path in life." (how max had freak and how freak had max... they had each other's backs) This is how I think the world should be. I think that this theme is the strongest because in the end, all we have is each other...