Alone In The Office

As included in the story, “At the Office by W.M. Akers” the main character is at his mom’s office alone, while his mom finishes her work. As his mom is gone, he hears a noise claiming it to be a ‘monster’, so he investigates. As included in the second story, “Alone in the Universe” the main character and their friends go on a camping trip, when they are ready to go to sleep they see a plane that looks like a UFO and they all believe in aliens now. In, “At the Office by W.M. Akers” , the author used the third person to narrate the story of a boy in an office. The other story “Alone in the Universe” by Jesse Kohn, the author used a different approach to develop the main characters and used first person. In two particular stories, two authors
The main character is Jesse, who is also the narrator of the story. The author uses Jesse to describe the background of the story, such as they are on a fifth grade camping trip and his two friends Dillon and Dylan come across the topic of aliens. “Aliens?” I said. “No way. I’m too old to believe in that kind of stuff.” After their small talk they went camping and ate. Later when the boys went to go to sleep, they saw something in the sky and the narrator said, “I looked at Dillon and Dillon looked at Dylan and Dylan looked at me, and I’d never, in the seven years I’d known both of them, seen either of them looking so scared.” “In that moment, I knew that we weren’t alone in the universe. When the UFO got closer, we all realized it was just a regular old airplane about to land in the nearby airfield. Well, even then I still knew we weren’t alone, and neither Dillon, Dylan, nor I—I can guarantee it—slept more than a moment during that long and memorable night.” The boys were now believed in aliens. The author used one of the boys to narrate the story which expresses their emotions more because the narrator talks to the other characters. Therefore, having the author use first person to tell the story, develops the characters in a more distinct