Part OnePoint of ViewIn this first part, I will discuss point of view and its various effects on the reader's interpretations of the story. Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. Each point of view brings a specific flavor to the story, depending on how it is used. The first person can be intimate or completely cold, while the third can express the thoughts of all the characters or leave the reader completely in the dark. The first story I chose was Szczepanski's The Tramp. The story was in third person and allowed the reader to grasp the ideas and feelings of the characters within the story. It affects the reader's interpretation of the story, because it gives the reader the motivations of the different characters, as seen when there is a discrepancy over which gun is used to kill the Tramp. The second story I selected was Nabokov's The Spire of the Admiralty. What I found interesting was that it was written in the first person, but also in the form of a letter. This type of perspective provides the reader with only the letter author's point of view and forces him or her to accept or reject the author's ideas and statements. The third story was Turgenev's Bezhin Meadow, in which the point of view is also first-person, but this first-person point of view influences the reader's interpretation because the reader, once again, must accept or reject the vision of the world and its inhabitants by the narrator. In Bezhin Meadow, the author also describes a group of children with whom he ends up spending the night. These descriptions influence the interpretation of the rest of the story, because the narrator sets it up with his first-person observations. In the last story, Love, by Olesha, the use of the third person allows the reader to... middle of paper... regarding the characters, because if the artist does not portray the original characters correctly, or even with taste, the audience may come to dislike the characters with whom they are supposed to positively identify. The medium of a film influences how the artist treats the story material even when it comes to setting. The artist can stick to the original or try something completely new, as Mr. Davenport did. By placing it in a different period, it allowed the audience to experience it in a closer and more intimate time frame or, in my case, in a time still slightly removed. The medium influences the way the artist deals with material-history, because he or she must make critical decisions about what to use, what to change, and what to leave out. It must please its audience, while at the same time trying to tell its story, or rather its version of it.