The Way You See

Author’s Note: I wrote this essay to show how good it is if I actually tried. The book is very good and people who like books about wars I recommend it for you.

In the book The Boy Who Dared, in the times of war when the Nazi’s ruled most of Germany, many families were with the war or against it, most people persuading others to see Hitler as they do. Helmuth a middle aged tells how his point of view got him locked up and in line for execution, and how the soldiers seen him. Every situation that he is in there is always a different point of view by others.

In Helmuth’s point of view the reader sees things differently other than the point of view of somebody else. Such as when Helmuth’s brother is sent out to war it is horrifying for Helmuth, but his brother Gerhard thought of it as a great opportunity to become a hero. The reader usually feels the way the character does that is telling the story. For example when Helmuth says” Hitler is a mad man” the reader feels that he possibly a bad person. He also said “Hitler is tearing this country apart and killing our soldiers” makes you think that Hitler is a bad leader too. So the reader sees Hitler as bad all together.

How the story is told by Helmuth really affects the way the reader sees everything, but if they point of view would change the reader would have different perspectives of the characters. If Hitler was telling the story I would think that Hitler is good instead of thinking he is ruining the country.  Another idea is if it was one of Helmuth’s friends who think that he is crazy, most of the readers would decide that Helmuth is crazy for what he is doing. So how the point of view is told does affect the way that the reader interprets the character.

Changing the point of view will change the way you see the story. Having a clear point of view of the story is very important to understand what is going on. Point of view really does matter in many ways, like what if the character that the point of view is in has nothing to do with the story.