Point of view is an essential element to consider when reading literature of any kind. How an author chooses to tell a story, directly affects how and what the reader sees and feels. Most authors write their stories with a certain point of view in order to keep the reader interested and to help them better understand the characters and their situations. In Truman Capote's, 'My Side of the Matter', and John Cheever's, 'Five-Forty-Eight', these …showed first 75 words of 1670 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1670 total…and the feelings portrayed would be totally different. The same goes for every other story that has ever been written or read. Try to imagine what it would be like if your favorite story was told from a different view point. Would it be the same story? More likely than not, it wouldn't be. You would discover, just as I have, that the point of view is directly related to how a story is perceived.