His View or Others?

By: Alex Caraulia

(Authors Note: This is about the POV of Coshmoo and how the stoy would be efected if he didn't tell the story.)
We all have different point of views on different subjects and matters. In the book, “Moon of Two Dark Horses”, there is a boy who doesn’t think about what his family and peers might think of him. The boy’s name is Coshmoo; he is the one telling us the story. He is a young Native American boy who is best friends with a white boy named Daniel. The boys are very close, but their perspectives aren’t.

However we will never know this because we are only in the perspective of Coshmoo and only him. His perspective states that the white man is kind and can help him and his people. If this were from another characters view, like Flying Wolf, he would say that the white man is evil. Flying Wolf believes that the white man is pushing the Natives off of the land.

This is during the Revolutionary War, and Coshmoo knows that. So in his perspective, he doesn’t want the war to come. Yet his cousin Flying Wolf does. He wants the war to come to the village to prove that he was right about the white man.

If this story was told from Flying Wolfs POV, he would want us to believe that the white man was bad and was taking over his land. He would get us on his side. Also we would here all the time how great he thinks he is. It wouldn’t be the best experience ever. And possibly 7 days wasted of our lives.

So all in all, the story wouldn’t be the same if Coshmoo didn’t tell the story. The POV of Coshmoo is what makes the story….the story. We would never know what he was thinking or doing or dreaming etc.