Point of View (revised)

Owen is a boy how isn’t like many. Owen is smaller than most boys and is a very big Christian. Owen believes that he is God’s instrument. Everything that happens in Owens’s life that happens, all the extraordinary events happens because he believes he is God’s instrument. The story is from John’s point of view. John is Owens’s best friend and what happens in the story is heart breaking to both of them.

One of the biggest events in the story is Owen  hits a foul ball and hits and kills John’s mom. This is a big event because John is left with his Grandma for the rest of his life. Before John’s Mom died she never told John who his Dad was and she never was planning it. She wouldn’t even tell anyone. Owen felt so bad when this happen he was saying I’m sorry and also I can’t help it everything I do is because God has a plan for me and I am God’s instrument. It also was the same response back from John every time, it’s fine I know it was an accident.

If this story was in Owens’s point of view I think that the story would change a ton. I think that it would change a lot because of how Owen acts from John’s point of view. The most thing that would change is how excited Owen was when he actually made contact with the ball and what he was thinking and doing after it all happened to make John feel better.

I think if it was from Owens’s point of view it would have made the reader feel different about Owen. They would have felt bad for him because they would have figured out how important John’s Mom was to Owen and John. John’s Mom was more of a Mom to Owen then Owens’s real Mom. She cared for him and even bought him all his clothes.

There could be so many great point of views in this story, but I think that John Ivring picked the best one because of all the details he adds in and how he describes what happens and how it happens within it. From a point of view from Owen it would be a lot more think of what he did and how he kept saying how sorry he is and everything. John Ivring couldn’t have picked a better point of view and that is what makes the story.