Comment on point of view

Phaedra Patrick tells her novel Rise and Shine Benedict Stone in the third-person limited-omniscient narrative mode, from the point of view of an unidentified third-person narrator. The narrator focuses exclusively on recounting Benedict’s experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and activities. Readers are given an intimate, objective perspective on Benedict. They see him as a flawed but good man seeking improvement in his present life and redemption for the past.