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Miss Fiora First Person Perspective

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The way we perceive things often tells a lot about us as individuals. The story is told in a first person perspective, which means we get glimpses of how Fiora feels, and how she perceives her surroundings. Ultimately, that makes it easier for us to characterize her psychologically. On the contrary, a first person perspective is often inferior to a more omniscient perspective when it comes to creating an outer image. An example of this would be when Fiora sits in the classroom, and she utterly feels the whole class is against her. As a spectator there simply is no definitive answer to whether this is the case or not; we cannot know what they actually think of her. The main downside to an inner perspective would be that it makes it harder for …show more content…

Preparatory schools usually take in students from eighth grade through twelfth grade, and considering she is a freshman it would roughly put her around the age of fourteen to fifteen. This would also explain her incapability of coping with pressure plus the competitiveness of a preparatory school. “Back in my junior high in South Bend, Indiana, many classes had felt like one-on-one discussions between the teacher and me, while the rest of the students daydreamed or doodled.” (Line 116 through 119, page 3) This would suggest that she is simply not accustomed to the competitiveness and she ends up dealing with it badly. It would also suggest that Fiora is quite the bright and dedicated student, which is also confirmed by the fact that she ends up spending so much time studying architecture just for a presentation on class.
Finding yourself and creating your own identity is also a tremendous theme in this text, which largely explains Fiora’s slight obsession with Gates. “I looked at her, and, as I did, I realized for the first time that she was very attractive: not pretty exactly, but striking, or maybe handsome.” (Line 278 through 279, page 6) Whether this means Fiora is gay, bisexual or simply curious is up to the reader to interpret, but it could also mean that Fiora simply looks up to Gates because she seems confident, and Gates essentially has created

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