Point of View

Frankenstein in Baghdad is told from the third person omniscient point-of-view. This means that the narrator is an entity outside of the principal cast of characters who has access to all of the characters' thoughts, feelings, and motivations. The narrator usually shifts point-of-view several times per chapter, and the switches are demarcated by the numbered sections, which are mini-chapters within the larger chapter. The narrator often depicts the same event from multiple perspectives to show the different reactions and effects of said events, like the suicide bombing outside the hotel.

Just before the suicide bombing, the narrator provides the reader with Hadi's interior monologue to demonstrate that he is distracted by the thought of the corpse in his courtyard at home: “What was he going to do? Should he hire a car to take the body to the forensics department? Should he take it out...