"What would Happen if there were Bricks in the Purse."

Authors Note: This essay is going to be about what it would be like if the climax of a boy trying to steal a woman's purse never happened.

In the story, Thank you Ma'am, a boy tried stealing a middle aged woman's purse, which was filled with everything you could think of and more. If the boy wouldn't of tried stealing the woman's purse for some money for cool blue suede shoes, he wouldn't have been kicked in the butt and shook till his teeth rattled. Also the boy wouldn't have been scared out of his mind by the woman who resembled Queen Latifa, who he thought would be scared of him but she wasn't. The boy for once in his life had a friend, a person who fed him, and a person who even washed his face and cleaned him up. This care and friendship would have never formed if the boy didn’t try to steal that woman's purse for those cool suede blue shoes.If this never happened he would have never got those cool blue suede shoes and unexpectedly a friendship.

Just think the boy was planning on just stealing the purse easily and running away with it. He thought this poor old lady would probably just scream help while running away. He would never think that the lady's purse would be so heavy and he'd fall on his butt, that was defiantly not part of the plan.Even though what he thought of what was a good plan to steal a poor womans purse.

“There are Always Two Sides to a Story.”

Authors Note: In this essay I will be writing about how when you read a story the point of view of the person who is writing it determines the way people look at the whole book.

In the story My Brother Sam is Dead a father and his son named Sam Meeker, are fighting about whether or not he will let his son go fight for the Americans in Revolutionary war. The story is written in the point of Sam’s younger brother, noting his observations of the war and his brother's involvement. From this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates a visual of a lot of arguments that turn into state of melancholy between Sam Meeker and his father.

One way that Tim Meeker’s point of view influences the reader’s interpretation is how this perspective describes how he wishes to be like his brother, thinking that the war is a symbolism of strength. Making his father look like the bad guy, because he doesn’t want his son, who is only 16 and is still a child to do a man’s work. When I read this story, I feel like Sam is old enough to make his own decisions and doesn’t need his father trying to make all of his choices for him as if he were a child.

However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Sam going off to War at the age of 16 if the novel were written in the point of view of his father. For instance, the reader wouldn’t think of the father as the bad guy because the father only is trying to protect his son, and try to make his child like himself. If the father wrote the story, you would think that it is good parenting and not letting him go is for the best.

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In My brother Sam is Dead the narrators perspective makes the reader think that Sam Meekers father is smothering him, and he is old enough to make his own decisions. Overall the point of view of a story can change the way people look at the whole entire picture.