Point of View

A Sitting in St. James is told in the third-person point-of-view and shifts between many different characters. While each viewpoint is written in a limited manner, the author builds connections for the reader by revealing each character’s feelings to certain events as they experience them together. Sometimes the author adds clear separations between each character's point-of-view with scene breaks. Sometimes, however, everyone’s thoughts and feelings blend together from paragraph to paragraph to better explore their individual reactions without creating a choppy or difficult-to-follow plot. All of this creates a simple flow from scene to scene that keeps the reader engaged while also providing all of the information they need to understand the world. Furthermore, it is clear that the author wants the reader to know why some of the characters make problematic decisions when the audience does not agree with them. This is...