Perspective

Perspective
The story “Sky High” written by Hannah Robert and “The Door” by Miroslav Holub both successfully conveyed the concept of perspective changes throughout the passage of life. The composer has provided several language techniques, encompass spectrums of simile, metaphor, personification and imagery.
In the short story “Sky High” the composer portrays a powerful vivid image in reader’s mind through the first sentence “silver skeletal arms throwing long”. This uses personification to depict the naive thoughts in her childhood. The language technique, simile is also used in the text through “a basket of faded clothes pegs adorning its trunk and generally festooned with socks and knickers and shirts like coloured flags in a secret code.” This portrays an image of a girl lying the top of the cloth line and staring at the sky. “Sky High” illustrates a change of outlook and perspective that is caused by the passing of age, as the increase of age, she can no longer do what she did in childhood again, and this further reinforced the change in perspective in each different life stage.
“The Door” is a poem based on persuasive technique, through the start of each stanza “go and open the door” the repetition of imperative emphasises that individuals need to take action to expend their field of vision, as a dual metaphor, the composer also suggests the reader that do not be restricted by the limit of horizon, the term “magic city” brings the reader a sense of large possibility, this persuades the reader to take a chance and expose to the outside world, opportunities and prospects might be rambling behind “The Door”.
The author of the story “Sky High” has express the viewpoint of the adult protagonist by using present tense. In poem “The Door”, the poet persuades the reader to overcome the fears and insecurities through the idea of limitless possibility in the outside world. Through the use of language techniques, both composers have successfully conveyed the...