Author’s note: I wrote this essay to show the point of view in this book and also to show my prediction towards the end of the book. Reading this essay will show you who is narrating the novel and what it would be like if someone else was telling the story.
While you read the novel Finishing Becca, by Ann Rinaldi, you will notice who the narrator of this book is and whose life it is about. This happens to be Becca Syng. Becca is a girl that lives very good life style. Her father has died and her mother has remarried a man by the name of Henry Job. In the story, Becca becomes a maidservant for the Shippen family. Having this position is a whole new lifestyle for her. It is difficult for her. The reason she a maidservant is for her to learn the life of a formal person.
In chapter six, Margret Shippen is telling Peggy about how she needs to stop asking for more and more. Becca is describing it as elegant as she is doing this. If this scene was written in Peggy’s eyes, it would be about how her mother is telling her a bunch of nonsense. Also, her mother is saying things that don’t matter, because she still thinks she can get whatever she wants.
Yet if this novel was written by Peggy’s prospective, it would be all about her. She can tend to be selfish, but from her perspective she isn’t. Her mother tends to be awful. Her mother is trying to raise her right and teach her manners, yet Peggy doesn’t see this. Peggy would just make the reader believe what a terrible life she has because people don’t always listen to her. She would want people to understand how she is the ruler of the house and nobody else is.
I believe Becca will make good decisions throughout this book. Even if she is starting off with a rough beginning at the Shippen’s house, she will turn around eventually and show them how well she can do. Maybe even Becca will help out Peggy with her love life with British Captain John Andre.
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