Point of View

The novel is written in third-person from an omniscient perspective. This means the reader knows what is happening in different areas at the same time. The word “Meanwhile” appears repeatedly in this novel, indicating that the events of the following scene are taking place simultaneously with another scene. Dog Man appears in only a few scenes of this installment of the series. No single character appears in every section of the novel, which makes the omniscient perspective necessary. The reader is required to constantly evaluate the words and images to fully understand what is happening. The perspective become more limited if the reader focuses too much on either the images or words.

One point about the perspective is that the images are not always drawn to scale. Some items are nearer to the artist, meaning that item seems larger than it actually is. For example...