Point of View

Fall of Giants is told in a third-person narrator and follows the lives of eight different people from four different countries. While a majority of the narrative is third-person limited, there are a few cases where the narrator’s voice slips in, telling the reader something important that does not happen in the scene itself. The best example of this is after Woodrow Wilson decides to invade Veracruz, Mexico to stop a German ship with ammunition. Woodrow declares that they will not apologize for the move, but the narrator writes, “but they did” (159). Furthermore, the narrator’s voice remains the same between all eight characters. This creates the sense that the narrator does know everything that is going on, and maybe compiling these stories from the perspective of someone in the future. This builds the narrator’s reliability, as the various biases are purely the...