Introduction

Hey everyone!

If you have ever seriously considered your life, I am sure most of us have pondered what it would be like to look at our lives through someone else's perspective, or as we would call it "stepping into someone else's shoes." I admit I did this quite often as a kid, and since I have a sister so close to me in age, I would imagine myself as her, and try to see what she sees when she looks at me. (It's not too hard when your a twin!) Though this does take a great deal of imagination on any ones part, I also found that it was extremely fun, and life changing, as you all can image. One of the reasons that I love literature so much, even if it is not just American Literature, is because you get a chance to look at life differently than that of your own perspective, and so in this blog that is exactly what I want to do. 

If you think about it each persons life is a story, and when each author writes a piece of literature, (whether it's a poem, a sonnet, a novel, or a play) they probably have a reason behind it. Unfortunately, unless we find a way to travel back in time, we probably will never know the true reason why. In playing around with this concept, what I want to do then is to look at a piece of literature from the eyes of another character's perspective in a story. This could be someone that I have made up, or an actual character that the author has written. My hope is, is that through changing our view point about a character, we can dive deeper into the purpose behind a piece of literature, and maybe find passage into the original thoughts of the author. 

These different perspective blogs will be post one of two ways. Sometimes they will be posted as journals, with short entries on how a character (not the main character) feels or thinks about a situation that is taking place in the story, or they will be more of an analysis response based on my thoughts about another character's point of view, either about a situation or their character's part in general. All of the stories will come from what we are reading in class. Both of these entries are definitely up for involvement, so if anyone has the desire to post something along with them, definitely feel free to do so!