Point of View

This novel is told from a pair of first-person points of view. Ewan tells his story from his first-person point of view while Maggie tells her novel from her first-person point of view. This novel would not have worked if the author had chosen any other point of view. Writing from the first-person point of view requires both Ewan and Maggie to limit their reports to what they see or experience. For instance, Ewan writes: “We’d spent most of the night consoling Maggie, who refused to go back to her room. Between crying jags and bouts of panicking, she told us she had been asleep when the armoire doors flew open. Then Mister Shadow stepped out of it, sat down on the edge of her bed, and told her she was going to die soon” (285). Because Ewan did not experience Mister Shadow coming out...