Perspective is the lens through which any story is told, and using a different perspective can drastically change how one event is seen and understood. Imagine if you will the story of To Kill a Mockingbird from the perspective of Tom Robinson instead of Scout. Or if Catcher in the Rye were told from a third-person perspective instead of from inside Holden’s mind. We’d understand those stories completely differently in those instances, though the events of what actually happened would remain the same.
A wholly objective biography of my pre-teen years would tell the relatively unexciting tale of a mostly quiet, kind of odd girl with a huge imagination and moderate anger management issues, raised in a loving family and community, checking the boxes of a ‘normal’ white, middle-class suburban life. But! From a certain perspective, my girlhood is the true* story of a tiny badass 80’s female action hero, a la Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley. I’m here to give you that story.
