Nora McCarthy, "Flipping the Script"

Nora McCarthy is a writer and editor, who explains that her students taught her just as much as she taught them! She was a magazine editor and one of her writers, Natasha Santos wrote a story about her personal experience. McCarthy helped her edit the article by telling her to change the point of view, and style of her writing. Natasha's story was about her depressing childhood, but she somehow turned it into a inspirational story for the audience, but also Natasha too. She told the story mainly using her father as the main character. About how he abused her, and she did not say anything. She used sentences starting with he, too frequently. It was as if the story was about him. McCarthy wanted her to show the story from her point of view, what was she doing and thinking at this time? Once she started writing using more sentences with I, she really expressed how she was strong in taking care of her sister, and should be proud of herself for being so strong in such a bad situation. I think that Nora McCarthy really showed me and Natasha how to write from a different perspective, in a different voice, to completely alter the voice of the story, to benefit the essay.