The point of view of a piece of fiction is the perspective from which the story is told. A third person narrator relates most of the stories in How the Garda Girls Lost Their Accents, referring to characters as "he" or "she." For the most part, tills narrator is omniscient, or "all-knowing," able to reveal the thoughts of all the characters in the story. There are stories or portions of stories, however, when one or another of the sisters takes over the narration, making it first person ("I"). Yolanda, the poet and writer, is the sister who most often takes the role of narrator.
The setting of a novel is the time, place, and society in which the story takes place. The novel's dual settings-the Bronx in New York City.....
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