Point of View

Chakraborty tells the story from two different points of view, alternating narrators every other chapter, narrating events from that character’s perspective while also including the character’s thoughts, memories, and feelings. The two narrators are Ali, a young adult daeva prince, and Nahri, a young 20-something shafit who travels from the human world to the daeva world. There are two exceptions to this mode of storytelling which occur. First, short passages appear in italics which reflect a first person perspective. These occur when Nahri uses magic to see the story through the eyes of Dara in the past. Most of the narration is focused on external events; when the character’s speak to themselves in their mind the author indicates so using italics. For the majority of the story narrators convey events, thoughts, memories, and feelings in complete sentences and using proper grammatical syntax...