"Point of View"

"It’s a Saturday morning in September, I’m wearing my shining name. The little girl who is now dead sits in the back seat, with her two best dolls, her stuffed rabbit, mangy with age and love. I know all the details. They are sentimental details but I can’t help that. I can’t think about the rabbit too much though, I can’t start to cry, here on the Chinese rug, breathing in the smoke that has been inside Serena’s body. Not here, not now, I can do that later. She thought we were going on a picnic, and in fact there is a picnic basket on the back seat, beside her, with real food in it, hard-boiled eggs, thermos and all. We didn’t want her to know where we were really going, we didn’t want her to tell, by mistake, reveal anything, if we were stopped. We didn’t want to lay upon her the burden of our truth."(83-84). The scene has a very direct point of view.The narrator is describing the scene from her perspective to try and reason what happened to the little girl. She wants to explain the situation in a way which justifies what happened to the little girl so she can find comfort in it. The narrator explains it was for the little girls best interest. If the roles were reversed the story would be different from the little girls perspective, however, I would tell the story from the same perspective because it explains it in a better way. The "death" of the little girl needs to be explained from an outside look because she was too young to understand everything that was going o around her. Overall, point of view is very important while reading because it explains the story to the audience in a specific way. The author uses point of view very specifically because it is important in which way a story is explained to the readers.