You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind

Author:Lee Gutkind [Lee Gutkind]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

Here we see the world through the eyes of Dick and Perry and even, for a brief moment, through the eyes of the driver, the “lucky bastard.” Capote wasn’t there—he didn’t even know the event had taken place until much later. But his research was flawless and intensely deep. After devoting so much time to interviewing Dick and Perry he could get inside their heads.

Remember that Capote had terrific access to Dick and Perry. Unfettered. He could talk with them night and day, for as long as they all wanted to hang together. So Capote could dig deep and repeatedly ask them to go over their experiences, thus allowing him to see the world through their eyes. Using inner point of view as a technique is fun and effective, but you must make certain that you, like Capote, are not pushing way past the line of reality. It is easy to go overboard when assuming what others are thinking.

Kevin Sack’s “Shared Prayers, Mixed Blessings” presents another example of an inner point of view. While patrolling the church, Howard Pugh sees an eighty-one-year-old white man sitting in the sanctuary who is getting increasingly agitated by the minute. This is Roy Denson, to whom Mr. Lawson’s “improvisational riffs sound like so much screeching and hollering.” Denson tries to control himself and not lose his patience or his temper, but he’s been a member of this church for more than half a century—he helped hang the Sheetrock with his own sweat and muscle—and it is driving him crazy that the blacks are taking over, with the whites not only letting it happen but helping it along.

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