Point of View

"The Rabbit Back Literature Society" is told from the third person omniscient point of view. Third person omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective. This means that the author writes the story using third person pronouns such as "she" and "he." The author also has insight into what the characters are thinking which makes it an omniscient view, as opposed to a limited view where only the activities of the characters are reported. For example, the author writes, "She contented herself with Ingrid's explanation for the irregular books. Later she came to realize that under one reality there's always another. And another one under that." The author tells what Ella is doing and what her thoughts...