The Flashback.

How Does a Flashback Change the Perception of a Story? September 21, 2016. Wednesday.

     A flashback usually is told from first person perspective and therefore is told from an actual person. Unless the first person telling it is a robot, the flashback is given emotion and is able to elicit more emotion from the reader. Flashbacks can also be used to show different perspectives of the same story. Some stories can use a flashback to hint at or completely reveal the twist of the plot. In some cases as well, the entire story can be a flashback which is often told as first person past tense. Flashbacks also change the perception if the story jumps between the present and the flashback because it can show more of where the story or characters were then and where they are now. Back stories of characters are often included in flashbacks, which give depth to the character. This is interesting because the reader may completely hate a character, but then there is a flashback explaining why the character acts the way they do, and suddenly the reader's entire opinion of that character is changed.