Point of View (Training Camp)

In the book Training Camp by Jon Gordon, this is told from Martins point of view but his mom might have had a different perspective. That could affect the reader’s point of view of the story or even his mom’s point of view. But the trouble here is that martin has a broken ankle and is playing in the NFL and therefore he can’t make any money. So he cannot help his mom he has never felt so unable to do anything. Nobody really knows how she feels there or how much help she needs, but her son is in real danger with himself and possibly his mom dying in the hospital.  Martin has an ankle injury to be more pacific an ankle sprain. Now he has a huge chance of getting cut from the football team with that injury and he has help with it and it is feeling better. But his mom is helping him believe that he will stay on the team she has encouraged him throughout his life on being better and staying positive.

One way Martin moms could affect the point of view of the reader.  Martin mom helps him through everything in his life has encouraged by his mom. But now she is in the hospital, and she needs to get healthy. But he needs to make money to get her healthy. But how she feels about Martins injury is feeling good that it will get better and that god will make it better. She is not going to stop praying about him that is the thing that is on the top her mind, she just keeps encouraging and encouraging him to work hard and keep him positive.  His mom could also be effected by how he has that injury, for example she might not want her little boy to get hurt. Martin has never got hurt like this before so she might be doubting his playing. She might want him to come and spend more time with her.

The point of view of the mom makes the reader feel  encouraged. The reader feels that way because the mom always has faith in him, the reader might feel the same way as Martin. Also encouraged but he might feel a different way because it’s not his mother it’s a person that your just reading about.  It also shows that the mother cares for martin, the reader may also be touched by the way the mom is dyeing and all she’s done for everybody especially martin.

                The point of view of stories are told from one person point of view, but the reader might have different thoughts from another person point of view.  But that is depending on who’s point of view that is from. People mainly base the point of view on what the characters are like and how they react to certain things.  But when you change the point of view it ,may not seems like she is so sweet or so evil.

Martins mom-

I woke up this morning and still thinking about Martin and why he didn’t play in the second half of the preseason game. I just made my coffee and turning on the TV to see what’s on. Then the phone rings I answer it. It was Martin and he broke the news to me that he had a sprained ankle! I told him to stop worrying about me and I said that God will provide for me and you start worrying about yourself. You need to focus on getting that ankle better and just keep praying to God that your ankle will heal. We said our goodbyes and hung up and ESPN was on and they were talking about him. At that point I didn’t know what to do so I just relaxed put a nice cool towel on my head and went back to sleep.