Point of View

The book is written in the third person point of view with the author, W.E.B. Griffin, acting as the narrator. This approach allows the author to describe the settings and to provide background information for the reader. This is a much better approach than the first person point of view would be. When the first person point of view is employed, the knowledge of the reader is limited to the knowledge of the storyteller. This limitation is avoided by the use of the third person since the reader has all of the necessary information provided by the author. There is quite a bit of dialogue between the different characters that allows the reader to learn the personalities of the characters and adds more realism to the characters. The author and the characters are obviously pro-American which is to be expected in a book of...