Point of View

The point of view of this novel is first person. The narrator, Richard Paul Evans, is also the author and he has written this novel with himself and his wife and child as the main characters. Although the novel is a work of fiction, the use of real people as the main characters gives it a feel of being a true story, a work of non-fiction, which adds weight to the message presented within the development of the plot.

The first person point of view works well for this story because it is an intimate story of self-discovery The third or second person point of view might not have made the same impact. The first person point of view almost takes the narrator out of the story and allows the reader become the narrator, viewing the events of the story through their own eyes rather than...