Examples Of Point Of View In Icy Sparks

Point of view is a key element in every literary work because it shapes the story and the reader’s impressions of characters and situations. Authors use point of view to convey a certain feeling or message to the audience by letting them witness the narrator’s emotions and thoughts. In Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s Icy Sparks, the first person narration gives the reader a more personal perspective of Icy’s illness and a first-hand account of her growth into her adult years. One of the main reasons that the first person point of view of the story is significant is the audience experiences the story from Icy’s shoes and sees her thoughts as she goes through her lonely childhood. As a reader, one learns very quickly how difficult it is for Icy to find happiness and hope in her life. In her …show more content…
Nobody else felt or endured the pain and suffering that came along with her illness. Nobody knows just how difficult it is for her to go on living her life as normal as possible under the weight of her anger, confusion and insecurity that comes along with her disorder. She constantly heard remarks and insults directed towards her and targeting her illness in specific, which only builds into her inhibition. “You’re misfits….You’re weird….A sissy and a frog.” (Rubio 83) This quotation is just one of the many instances in which she is persistently ridiculed from her classmates and teachers for being different, claiming she is ungodly or crazy. No other character ever truly knows what it was like for Icy to have to go through such an awful thing. It is easier for the reader to sympathize with and relate to Icy because only the reader can see what she is really feeling and what her intentions truly are. Because the story is told by Icy Sparks herself, the reader sees the world only how Icy sees it and knows the other characters only how Icy knows