The Point of View of Adam and Moses Cooper

Author's note: I am focusing on Point of view (obviously) and idea development. This is a revision of my earlier post on the point of view in April Morning.

Adam Cooper is a fifteen year old boy who lives in Lexington Massachusetts prior to the Revolutionary War. He believes that his father is argumentative, harsh and unloving. As the reader of April Morning you feel similar because the book is written in Adam's point of view. 

Adam’s father, Moses Cooper, feels opposite about himself, believing that he himself is not harsh. If the book were in the eyes of Moses Cooper; you would feel that he is just trying to parent him and not deliberately yelling at him. On page 100, Adam admits that he does not remember everything, “At least those were the words that I seem to remember”. Adam describes his father more harshly than what his father would have described himself. 

Furthermore the book is in first person in the form of a journal, so the book is entirely in Adam’s view.  Since the book is in only one perspective the content is not objective. This proves that anything Adam describes may be inaccurate or over exaggerated.