Thursday, October 27, 2011

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.

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