Most people feel calm and relaxed
Taking historical perspective means understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped people’s lives and actions in the past.
A perspective is a literary tool, which serves a lens through which readers observe other characters, events and happenings.
Basically, perspective is based on your own experiences and historical perspective is based on actual facts
In "Gumption", using a first-person narrator allows the reader to view life as the narrator sees it.
The use of "I" in the story "Gumption" is proof of the first-person point of view and when reading such story; it enables the reader to become a part of the story, in fact, to become the "I" in the story. The reader becomes the first-person narrator.
The person is either being threatened if they tell something bad will happen or they rather just not tell anyone because they think its their fault.