Viewing the Story

Author’s Note: I chose to do this book because I thought that it would be interesting to see what it would be like from another person’s point of view.


I am doing my point of view piece on the book Give Me Liberty by Laura Elliott. This piece will be about the point of view in the book, and what would be different if the narrator changed.

The person who is telling the story in this book is the narrator telling Nathaniel’s story. Nathaniel  is a 13 year-old boy who doesn’t know much of what is going on during the American Revolution, but finds out more information about it as the book goes on. The whole book is an unknown narrator telling what does; describing Nathaniel’s life. If the main character walked to the door trying to figure out what the people in the other room were saying, it would be described like this in the book: “Nathaniel inched toward the door attempting to listen to find out what they were talking about.” The book never specifically mentions who the narrator really is.

If the story was told by someone other than the narrator, it would be much different. For instance, if it was told from Nathaniel’s point of view, then the book wouldn’t describe so much information that Nathaniel didn’t know at the time. There aren’t very many scenes where the main character isn’t there, because it seems like the narrator is only telling what is going on with Nathaniel. There is a lot of extra information of the American Revolution in the book, but if the book was in Nathaniel’s point of view, there wouldn’t be so many facts and information about the things that were going on away from where the main character was.

In conclusion, a book or story can be changed a lot when the point of view is changed. Sometimes, even in song lyrics, poetry, and many other types of literature,  there are different points of view. In this case, the point of view would definitely change the whole story if it was changed.