• "Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell relate to the theme "Chaging Perspectives"?

     

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Published: 27.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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To change perspective is to alter your view point - to see things in a different way.
The novel "Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho and the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell are both examples of changing perspective.
In Coelho's novel, the protagonist Veronika moves from feeling suicidal and disillusioned about life and love, believing that "her existence had no meaning" to seeing "each day a miracle" and falling passionately in love.
This shift happens when she tries to kill herself with sleeping pills, but wakes up in a mental hospital to the news that she although she is al…

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