The stories I read all convey characterized perspective in the sense that the narrator in them are the main character,and they influence how it's told because other characters thoughts can't be heard. These stories also shows how one person can view something differently from another. In the stories that make up the body paragraphs show the narrator's perspective. It gives the main characters thoughts, but not another persons. One example of characterized perspective is when in By The Waters Of Babylon, the narrator views the technologies we have today as "magic". This would be things such as power tools, electricity, running water, and Peters 2 cars. When he was in the apartment, he saw a vision of all the "magic". This as we know it, is not magic but utilities, vehicles, and infrastructure. The reason the perceive this as magic is because it’s post apocalyptic. This is after society as we know it collapsed, likely due to a war of some sort. In the quote “ They were men here before us…. we must rebuild,” (Benet 153), the narrator realises all the cities that are now in ruin, were man made cities, and they should rebuild. …show more content…
In Peters 3 the story Frank meets a girl by the name of Patricia, who, unlike Frank, sadly, does not live through it. Patricia, also unlike Frank, had Diphtheria, Frank had Typhoid Fever. Seamus, the janitor had finished the shakespeare Frank wanted. Shakespeare was Frank's’ favorite playwright. When Seamus read the poem to Frank, he cried because it reminded him of Frank and Patricia. The beginning of the two friendship was when Patricia called out “Yoo hoo. You there Typhoid Boy?” (McCourt 193). This created the story as if that had not happened, the story never could have been