Persuasion Rewrites: Overview

Each rewrite shows a scene from a different perspective than those given to us by the narrator. I believe that each rewrite takes us a little bit deeper into each character, helping us with our own judgment's of them. The scene where Louisa falls and gets hurt, we are given the view from a few different people: Henrietta, Mary and Captain Benwick. Reading each of these rewrites, I immediately opened up in Persuasion to the original scene and loved the differences. Each rewrite takes a different character through the same scene and we as readers are shown all these different emotions that make these characters more like-able, relate-able, or in Mary's case, more judgmental of. I think this exercise was important because we were given the chance to show how we think the characters might be feeling and thinking and compare it to others.