Point of View

The point of view of the story is varied and important to the project of the novel itself. For the most part, the narrator stays in third person past tense as he switches from character to character. The book starts with Emma Zellar in the prologue, and immediately get into a close psychic distance with the young girl as she is taking the CogPro test. In the next chapter, the narrator gives us an equally close look into the life of Rose. From there, the narrator continues to switch from one character to the next. Throughout the different chapters, the point of view travels to Beck, Xander, and Ch’ayña.

Through the different perspectives, the reader gets to see how the Crystal Academy admissions process affects five different families. Ch’ayña, for example, sees the process in a very different way than Rose...