Voice, As I Understand it

Voice is a part of everyone, and it is who you are. It captures your personality, what you think, how you think, how you speak, where you’re from, and what you believe. It’s not just a personality trait. It’s who you are to others. It can come in many forms, depending on who you’re speaking or writing to as well as what you’re speaking or writing about. You wouldn’t speak to your pastor the same way that you would your childhood best friend. You wouldn’t speak to your teacher about the same topics that you would your parents or your siblings. Your voice is something inside of you that you stumble upon while searching through other’s voices that you adore. Voice can take many different appearances. It depends on who is telling the story and how the character or narrator tells the said story. Point of view plays a major role in how a voice is perceived. First-person, second-person, and third-person all have specific attributes that can distinctly tell about who is speaking in their own way. It all comes down to how the work is written and from whose perspective.