Point of View

The novel is told from the narrator’s third person point of view, while also expressing the thoughts and emotions of Anya. For example, he writes Anya’s thoughts italicized when she approaches Morven’s door and thinks about the potential of her stepfather threatening to do something wrong, “Perhaps he already has [italicized], thought Anya” (6). Later when Anya has to take on solving her sister’s problems Nix writes, “Anya sighed. Everything seemed to work much better if a princess was involved, provided that princess was her. Every difficult task in the castle ultimately descended upon her shoulders” (25). This point of view gives the narrator a personality of his own, and a more objective point of view while still expressing sympathy and empathy towards Anya’s Quest. While the point of view is primarily the third person point of view of Anya’s, the...