Perspective

How can our perspective contribute to the meaning of an event? In what way does a writer’s relationship to the people, places, and events she describes influence her writing? How might a memoir differ from a biography or a historical account? Why do you think perspective has the effect it does?

• Perspective decides whether the an event is counted as "good" or counted as "bad". For example, when a there's a girl who's starting to get popular has gotten, there can be two perspectives on the event. The first perspective is that this girl might be really bitchy, so some people decided to "give her a lesson". The other perspective is that another girl who is popular is jealous of the other girl becoming popular, and also wants to "teach her a lesson". Another example relates to the South, after the Civil War in the United States. Blacks were often tortured and killed by organizations such as the KKK even though they are now stated as "free and equal" individuals by the US Constitution. The two perspectives are that the whites think that they're doing justice, and that the blacks think the whites are being unjust and discriminating against blacks.
• Perspective influences a writer's writing by giving said thing (people, places, and events) a positive or negative mood. A memoir is different from a biography or a historical account because a memoir is more emotional than both of them. Perspective is effective because it affects the ways a person thinks and also mood.