Point of View

This story is written in past tense, from a third-person perspective, which is limited to the pilot’s perspective. However, the third-person perspective is not consistent. In some sections throughout the story, the narration transitions to first-person. Moreover, the limited narrator explores the pilot’s thoughts and reactions to events as they transpire in the story.

The limited narrator provides the reader with a more intimate understanding of and relationship with the pilot. Moreover, it adds nuance to the pilot’s character, because it shows the reader the pilot’s exact reactions to events that transpire throughout the story. For example, when the pilot is spinning through the air, he transitions through black and white periods. During a white period, his hand “touched something” (302). The pilot does not realize what the object is until he wakes up completely and realizes that it is the bedsheet...