Night Hoops Through Trent's Eyes

Author's Note: This is my revised point of view piece on a text, instead of the sports moment I did before. I did this to complete my goal to score a 9 or higher in point of view.

The point of view of a story really changes how the reader feels about certain things in a story. What if the point of view were to change and the outlook was completely different? Would the reader feel completely different about the story, or maybe not think of characters as highly? If the point of view of the story changed, and it was now told from Trent’s point of view instead of Nick’s, the reader would react completely different. In the book Night Hoops by Carl Deuker, the story is written with Nick as the narrator.

In the book, Nick sees everything as a good thing, because he is a sophomore on the varsity basketball team, and life is going good. He doesn’t realize what happens in other people’s lives, and thinks they are all like him. When he realizes Trent, another main character, doesn’t have as good a life as him, his parents and brother always getting into trouble, he automatically thought that Trent was a bad kid. That wasn’t the case. If the story was written in Trent’s point of view, he would be a kid going for the same thing as Nick, a spot on the varsity roster.

Trent is not a bad kid, he gets misunderstood a lot. He is a god kid in a bad family. His brother already had a criminal record, and his dad was in jail. His mom was barely home, and life was tough. He was alone with his brother a lot of the time, and his brother would make him do terrible things with him sometimes, an that just got Trent a bad reputation.

At the end of the story, Trent becomes good friends with Nick through varsity basketball, and they hang out a lot of the time, which keeps Trent away from his house and away from his past. He was ready to start over, and get a new, better reputation. If this was written as Trent, he would’ve been that nice guy the whole time, and over the course of the book, he would try to convince people that that was the real Trent.

The point of view of a story can really change the outlook of the reader about certain things. Maybe the original narrator missed something, and their side is completely different. The reader would feel completely different about those characters. The reader will get a lot of different feelings if you change the character’s point of view.