In a ten sentenced paragraph, think how a different point of view, like John's father's point of view, would change the story “By the Waters of Babylon.”

Question

Please simply explain how the story would change if this alternate point of view had been used. In your opinion, would this point of view have made the story better? If not, please explain why not

Answer 1

The best way to answer questions like this is to think of what the person with that alternate point of view (like John's father) experienced versus what John himself did. There are things that John's father experienced that John didn't and vice versa. Imagine if you spent most of Saturday with you best friend, and then someone asked both you and your friend to describe what happened Saturday. Most of what you say would be similar, because you were together for most of it, but there were some parts where you weren't together, and other parts where maybe you were having fun but your friend wasn't, so the same thing happened to both of you, but the way you'd describe it would be different.