Changing Perspective In Gordon Parks 'The Funeral'

I can remember going to Bay Beach with my family and thinking that the small wooden roller coaster was so impressive. However, as I grew up, I rode better and better roller coasters. Only then did I realize how much the one at Bay Beach pales in comparison. The funeral also shows this idea that our views of the world are not always correct and are subject to change . in "The Funeral" by Gordon Parks, the speaker changes their perspective of the world as their life goes on . Gordon Parks uses Perspective to show that perspective changes because of different experiences. In fact; Gordon Parks shows 3 different ways the speaker's perspective changed: through the speaker changing over time, the loss of a loved one, and a realization of reality.
In "The Funeral" Gordon Parks uses perspective to show that as time changed so did the perspective of the speaker. The speaker loses her only connection to her childhood which requires her to see reality. The speaker says that “it had been many snowfalls” since they returned home, reinforcing how much …show more content…
This also shows how our perspective is different when we're young: a place as far away as China or Calcutta can seem as different and exotic as something as close to us as Kansas City. It also shows how the road seemed as if it went anywhere when the speaker was a child; however, when the speaker aged and matured they only realized that the road does not have endless possibilities. The road only leads to the father’s final resting place. The experience of her father's passing humbled her. It made her realize that when we are young our lives do not actually have endless possibilities, and in reality, no matter how successful we were in our lives, we all end up in the same place, six feet under the