Point of View

There are actually three different points of view used in this novel. Each of these points of view is important in the story and has its own purpose. The majority of the book is written in the third person point of view from the viewpoint of an omniscient narrator. The chapters that are written in the third person point of view are Chapters 2-14 and 16-32. It is in these blocks of chapters that Emmy’s viewpoint of the story is told through the narrator. The choice of a third person point of view is interesting because Isabel tells her story directly, face to face, to Kendra, yet the story is presented to the reader in the third person.

Chapters 1, 15, 33 and 41 are written in the first person point of view and are narrated by Kendra. Kendra is a college history major who has been granted...