Point of View

Point of View

By: Elias Dorsey

Moon of Two Dark Horses

Authors note: This piece is about how the book would be different if it were told by a different characters point of view. I provide examples for my argument that the book would be less entertaining if it had been told from someone else’s perspective. Enjoy.

In the book the moon of two dark horses, you follow a young Native American boy searches for mythical bones that can help stop the soon to be revolutionary war. This book is told primarily from the main character’s point of view. Sometimes you have to look at situation through a different character’s point of view. Take Coshmoo’s best friend Daniel for example. In one scene in the book, the author introduces Daniel’s uncle. The blacksmith. Daniel’s uncle apparently doesn’t take too kindly to Native American people walking into his house or on his property. In this scene Coshmoo is invited by Daniel into his house. This is told from Coshmoo’s view. When it is described, it seems to irk Daniel even more than it does to Coshmoo. I think this is because Coshmoo can block out things he doesn’t want to hear from his mind or because he has gotten used to his uncle insulting him. Daniel seemed to take this extremely personally. Either way it seems as though from Daniel’s point of view it seemed like a even worse situation.

In Daniel’s point of view, it seemed as though it wasn’t the first time his uncle insulted the Native Americans. Daniel got even more frustrated when his uncle called Coshmoo “A dirty half breed,” Referring to Coshmoo’s European and Native American decent. In response Daniel’ called him a “frog face” in Native American, before he and Coshmoo entered his house. I’ve had my best friend insulted in front of me before, and I stick up for him when someone does insult him. So I see where Daniel was getting his anger from. I think what he felt was that he was, to a certain extent, defenseless against his uncle. That he was maybe not taken seriously enough. I know I’ve been through the same thing.

Either way, I think the book would be much different told from Daniel’s point of view considering he doesn’t debate as much as Coshmoo does. So there would be less conflict and resolution. He also doesn’t participate in anything exciting like Coshmoo. It looks as though if it this book had been written from Daniel’s perspective, I would’ve lost interest a long time ago. So I think the book is best written, the way it is.