Matched Since Grandfather's Perspective

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The last narrative collection I choice to create was a rewrite. For the rewrite, I choice to rewrite a scene from Grandfather’s perspective. The scene is taken placed during Grandfather's eightieth birthday (Final Banquet, his death). Since this scene was originally written from Cassia’s perspective, someone with a completely opposite thoughts and ways of thinking would be Grandfather. At this particular scene, Cassia has not rebelled yet. Her innocence for the Society is still present as she is still believing that The Society makes no mistake and is the perfect world. However, grandfather, on the other hand has lived much longer than Cassia. He knows the secrets behind the Society that Cassia is not aware of. Additionally, lies and deceit are a pretty big deal thematically in …show more content…
He knows that the Society is everything except utopia. Although in the rewrite, grandfather is not saddened by his death, he is saddened by how his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren are going to see him for the very last time. From grandfather’s perspective, he can see the sadness within Cassia as she attends his Final Banquet. In addition, grandfather can see the beginning of rebelliousness, passion, and strength in Cassia during the banquet. Abran, Grandfather’s son also plays a very significant role in Grandfather’s life. As mentioned in the rewrite, Abran is a rebelled like Grandfather, thus, why Grandfather trust his son to be in charge of his tissue preservation. Since Grandfather is qualified for tissue preservation, meaning he has the chance to come back to life, he knows that this is not what he wants. Therefore, since Abran is a rebelled and would bend the rules for those he loves, Grandpa knows that Abran will bend the rules for him (destroy the tissue preservation). Furthermore, from Grandfather’s perspective, he also has never trusted the

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