Point of View

This novel is told through a first-person narrator, the character Zits. After the first few chapters are told using a conventional first-person narrator, the perspective of the narrator becomes more nuanced when Zits begins to suddenly transport into the minds and bodies of other people. Crucially: even though Zits is not always in control of the actions of the people he "occupies," the narration is told through Zits' point of view, and not the point of view of the person. An example of this comes when, against Zits' intentions, the Irish tracker Gus Sullivan quickly zeroes in on the Indian camp: "I can move his arms and legs. I can talk with his voice. And I can think my own thoughts. But Gus is stronger than I am" (86).

The narration becomes even more nuanced when the personal memories of the person whom Zits is occupying...