Octavian vs. Slave owner

Author’s note: The author’s purpose is to inform you on Octavian’s life and what he goes through. Then put it into another person’s point of view and see what it would be like then.

How would you feel if you were a young boy/girl going through the tough times of slavery in early Boston? Well that’s what Octavian has to live through, but he also have to live through an amount of scientists experimenting on him. Octavian and his mother were very powerful people in their country, but when they came to America they were captured by slave owners. They put Octavian’s mother to work right away, but they wanted to learn more about him since he was still really young. The slave owners didn’t want the slaves to their real names, so they called each other by numbers like 03-01. Octavian’s owners were scientists and everyday they would put him through a series of tests. Sooner or later he finds out about why they are doing this and he gets pretty upset so he tries to break out of the horrible place.

I think that Octavian’s point of view affects the story in a way. He is a little boy from a free country, and now he is a slave for a scientist. Octavian looks at life as a pretty good place at first, then as time goes on he feels trapped and he sees what the scientists do to the other slaves. Then his point of view definitely changes when everyone is at the party and people start getting the pox, even his mother. Not knowing what to do, he tries helping everyone but he doesn’t know that there is no stopping it. While he is helping all of the people he also tries to visit his mother as much as possible. So, at the beginning of the story Octavian was a little boy at mind, but as the story went on he became a smart man at mind seeing what is happening around him and taking it on.

I feel that if you were to put the story into the slave owner’s point of view it would be a lot different. Octavian sees the tests that he goes through as something they do for fun at first; the scientists see it as helping the world with new inventions of materials. Yes, the scientist sees Octavian as a slave just like any other one. But he treats Octavian with respect at first because he is young and useful to his tests and work. When Octavian his mother and the owner meet the king and his people they treat Octavian as if he were just another slave, but they treat his mother with great respect since she was once a princess.

Overall, I think that the story might be somewhat different if you were to put the story in the slave owner’s point of view. Although, it might also be alike in a way. Octavian is a very nice person and changes his point of view towards everything as the story goes on. The scientist is kind only to Octavian and his mother and nobody else, but as the story goes on when the king comes he sees how badly he treats the slaves and starts to change in a way.