What are the authors saying about the ways in which an individual’s consciousness controls, and is controlled by, external “reality”?

Examine the ways in which the authors dramatize the concept of perspective. To what extent are the authors implying that individuals (including readers) need to rethink their beliefs about themselves and the world around them? How are individuals (including speakers/narrators) in both works attempting to define themselves in relation to particular perceptions of reality, and how does that affect the way in which they respond to the external world? Are they able to complete that process of defining themselves by the end of the works, and how is that relevant to the point of each poem/story? What are the authors saying about the ways in which an individual’s consciousness controls, and is controlled by, external “reality”? What is the significance of the narrative structure (first- or third-person point of view) of each work in terms of this theme?

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