Perspective

Different perspectives can cause the readers to receive different views of one events. With that it can cause a different emotional element and also changes the meaning of the event. One character may view the event as something unimportant but to another character may mean the world to. If a writer was to write a story about someone he/she knew he/she would have a greater emotional attachment to that character (this also appeals to settings and events). In memoirs writers reveal a important event that occurred in their life. Memoirs are more like a strip of the most important information from a wiki page, and the biography being the wiki page. Also the style used to write memoirs are usually more story like and less textbook styled. Perspective is a powerful tool it may get you to see only the detail the author wants you to see but blinds you from everything else. It is used a lot in the writing of history. History is never written in a third-person who knows it all and reveals it all. It is usually written from a perspective that would make the country the book is published in more powerful or less weak. You could read about the same historical event from three or four different countries textbooks and each would have it own twist to it.