Area Of Study Changing Perspectives
...his parents had on him and what they wanted him to become and found the only way they would listen to him was to take his own life. The way that John Barton’s death changes Josie’s perspective is that the relationship between Ivy and her develops as they both realize that they are very similar and that there is no point in fighting or disliking each other any more. Stole relates to what John was experiencing as it is about a boy who is at High School who is smart, not liked and who’s life is falling apart. The boy who is talked about in the song is labeled as the brightest kid in school but didn’t fit in and wasn’t welcome. The boy is smart and because he is smart he is not cool. So to escape the way people were making him feel he committed suicide. This changed the way some of the students felt about him and Kelly’s as she states in her song” she wished she would have talked to him and gave him the time of day and not turned away and maybe he wouldn’t have gone this far”. This shows the impact of him committing suicide and what it had on other people and the way it developed changing of perspectives of the other students towards him. Both John Barton’s incident in...