comment on structure

The structure is non-linear and bounces back and forth between Trond as a 67-year-old man in the present, and Trond as a 15-year-old boy in the summer of 1948. Trond, himself, says it best when he muses that a man cannot steal horses alone. He understands on some level that he has an honest reckoning coming, and thus the past shapes the future, and the future interprets the past. Thus, the structure is offered as a bouncing back and forth between the two time frames.