Point of View

This novel is written in the first-person point of view. The main character, Martin Anderson, is the narrating character. Martin tells his story with the intimacy afforded a first person narration, drawing the reader in closely and sharing all his thoughts, feelings, and doubts.

The first person point of view is an intimate point of view that keeps the reader focused on the narrating character only even if some of the action of the plot takes place around another character. This point of view creates a relationship between the main character and the reader that is important to the reader's response to the plot of the novel. The author wants the reader to care what happens to the main character, therefore the first person point of view creates a relationship between reader and narrator that is deeply intimate, making the reader deeply concerned for the welfare...