"Jozelda" - Short Story

Jozelda is a short story that demonstrates how ones perspective of things can change over time. In Jozelda the author has weaved a remarkable story about how, a young girls perception towards other girls in her year change with time. Throughout the entire story the audience is only told of "Jessie's" perspective or point of view. The story begins with the audience hearing about Jessie's thoughts on Jozelda. "She was as odd as her name. Jozelda was different", this remark immediately informs the viewer that Jessie thought of Jozelda as an unusual and queer girl. The audience further learns from Jessie that Jozelda was the girl that, no one sat with at school, the girl that preferred sitting on her own, the black sheep of the class. This is emphasised further in Jessie's comparison of Jozelda with the rest of her class, "It was like she was a little drop of oil and all the rest of us were drops of water in a glass.…