Un-required Category for "Moustraps"

       The book Mousetraps is in first person point of view. I think that first person point of view was chosen so you could get the full affect of what Maxie was going through in some of the situations she encountered. If this book wouldn’t have been in first person point of view, it would have made the book a lot different. For example; if this book were written from Sean or Dexter’s point of view, we wouldn’t have known details about the scene when Maxie goes to visit Rick at the motel he is staying at. This scene is important to the book because Rick tells about his bad decisions that he made leading to his beating. If the book would’ve been written from Rick’s point of view, the climax may have been given away because we would’ve already known what had happened. This would make the story less exciting already knowing what Rick was planning on saying to Maxie. Some scenes may have still been just as interesting, but possibly not. One example of this is again when Maxie goes looking for Rick at the motel. Instead of being glued to the book dying to know what was going to happen next, you would’ve already known about Rick’s story and why he was at the hotel. The full impact wouldn’t have been the same, and there would not really be a climax in the story. Another good example of telling this story from the first person point of view is when Maxie and Rick are started to drift apart from being friends in the sixth grade. Maxie was bothered because people were teasing them. Other students thought of them as a couple and it wasn’t true. I think Rick mainly didn’t care because he had always been an outcast in his life and didn’t mind the teasing nearly as much as Maxie did. Rick just wanted a friend that he could always rely on. Maxie realized the teasing was starting to affect her life and slowly but surely drifted from Rick. Sadly, Rick didn’t realize that their friendship was drifting apart. He believed that he would never lose Maxie as a friend. If this story were told from Rick’s point of view, we wouldn’t have understood how Maxie felt about being teased. I think the author obviously made a good choice in making Maxie the main character and making the book in first person point of view.