"A Worn Path"

Point of View- “A Worn Path”
Point of view has the ability to change the mood or tone of a story. It allows the reader to understand the tale from a certain character’s perspective. Another way to influence the point of view is how it is delivered to the audience. A story can be listened to, watched, or read. If the tale is read or listened to, it allows the reader to envision how the characters and settings look. The writer will say how the characters and setting look, but the details are left up to the reader. If the tale is watched in the form of a movie or film, then hardly any details, if any are left up to the audience’s imagination. Reading “A Worn Path,” then watching the short film changed my views of the story quite a bit.
The short film of “A Worn Path,” was put in the terms of how the director envisioned the story. The movie took the author’s characters and exaggerated them. The settings of the tale were the same as I had imagined them to be, but the director took characters and stretched them to their farthest extreme. The hunter was as redneck as a hunter could get, the nurse at the clinic seemed condescending instead of helpful, and the grandmother appeared absolutely pitiful. The movie made the grandmother’s situation appear a hundred times worse than what I had thought it to be. It almost made me feel hopeless. An elderly lady who is capable of making the trip she was taking on multiple occasions should not seem so hopeless. I thought her to be stronger than what she was portrayed.
After reading and watching “A Worn Path,” I decided reading was a much better way to learn the story. I did not agree with the director’s view of the story and preferred the freedom of imagining what the author wanted. I disliked the hopeless feeling the movie gave me from the grave characteristics the director gave the characters. The tone of the story was not upbeat in either form of the story, but the movie had a more dry and negative feel. My point of view did change after watching the movie form of the short story, “A Worn Path.”