Point of View

The novel is told from the third person point of view of an omniscient narrator. This third person point of view is important in this novel because the development of the characters is just as important to the story as the plot itself. If the story were told from the point of view of any one particular character instead of an all knowing narrator, the other characters would not have been developed as fully and completely as they are. The use of an omniscient narrator allows the reader to have insight into the thoughts and emotions of all the characters. The reader also gets to observe the interactions between the characters without any of the bias that might have been apparent if just one character had narrated the story or if any one character’s viewpoint was followed more closely than that of the other...