The Good Doctor | Style

The Good Doctor Style

Point of View

The Good Doctor is written in first person omniscient, with Dr. Frank Eloff as the narrator.

Setting

The Good Doctor is set in a poor, small, rural hospital in the former 'homeland' (black) part of post-apartheid South Africa. This is an important backdrop as it is the reason for the hospital's existence and for its disrepair. The town itself Frank calls a "ghost town" (p.5), which is, "uninhabited, in which nothing has ever happened," (p.4). It was, 'a town that had been conceived and planned on paper, by evil bureaucrats in a city far away," arbitrarily choosing it and marking it as their 'homeland' (p.4). The hospital is, 'not a real hospital. It is a joke' (p.5) according to Frank. The people do not come there because, "It's where the army came from. It's where their puppet dictator lived. They hate this place." (p.6) The hospital is in extreme disrepair, with,...
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