Point of View

"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" is written from Aram's first person point of view. Told in the past tense, Aram is narrating from a time and place years beyond the events in the story. The tale, therefore, is the substance of Aram's nine-year-old recollection. At the start of the piece, he tells the reader that his experience with Mourad and My Heart happened "in the good old days," back when "the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream" (1). This opening line places the story in Aram's childhood, and suggests that the circumstances defining the memory now seem categorically unreal, defined by an illusory, almost fantastical sense of wonder. Aram's youthful perspective combined with his attempts to accurately recall the events of this particular summer, therefore, distort the narrative world. As a result...