The Change of Perspective in the Author of Sky High

The Change of Perspective in the Author of Sky High

The text Sky-High shows the change of perspective in the author,

Hannah Robert, as she goes from an imaginative and curious child to an

adult with less freedom and more responsibility. It explores the

nature of change, which occurs in the transition from child to adult

While the author is reminiscing about her childhood, we see her

perspective of herself and her backyard and her world. Her backyard

becomes a place where she can have many adventures with many different

characters. As she describes her backyard, the mood changes as her “…

thoughts return to my original plan, the ultimate conquest of the

washing line.”. With the use of the word conquest a feeling that she

is on a mission to climb the washing line is empathized. Once she has

conquered the washing line and is swinging on it, she feels as sense

of flying. “The earth spins below me. I am flying.”

As the author is describing her backyard there are many lines that

help get the character’s perspective across to the responder. These

lines include; “Other foliage; a bush with red berries, a struggling

sapling, surround the patchy lawn like spectators.”. This use of

similes and metaphors describe a scene where the author is carrying

out her mission with an imaginative audience. This signifies the

typical free-flying imagination of a child. And also in the line “I

bask in the sun in my exalted position, almost sky-high, feeling as

filly and nearly as pink as the bathers I am wearing.”, the use of

adjectives and similes, the feeling of immense excitement is shown

clearly to the responder.

The mood and tone of the passage changes dramatically as the

perspective changes in paragraph 6. The author...

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...ity going in the last paragraph.

The structure of the passage helps the responder to clearly see the

changed perspective of the author. The passage starts with the

child’s perspective; the writing has almost a curious and flighty feel

to it. This feeling is empathized through the use of verbs,

adjectives, similes, metaphors, imagery and descriptive and emotive

language. Then, as you move through the passage you get a more

serious mood and tone in the writing until the final paragraph where

the perspective of the author’s backyard and washing line has changed

altogether. The structure has no jumping back and forth in it; no

going from the child’s perspective to the adult’s, the story is able

to flow easily. The structure is almost in the form of stepping

stones, where the change in perspective can go from one point of view

to the other, child to adult.