Point of View

Noughts and Crosses is told from a first-person point of view. The narrator switches between Callum’s and Sephy’s perspectives with each chapter. The reader is privy to both of the protagonists’ thoughts and feelings. This, in turn, enables the reader to understand and empathize with each of their plights. This switching from Callum’s to Sephy’s points of view is especially useful to reader considering that they each take a very different view of events. While the reader knows how each is feeling, the two rarely communicate their opinions to the other. This creates many instances of dramatic irony, where the reader knows what one character is going to do before the other does. Having both the protagonists narrate the story is especially useful considering that one of the main themes of the novel is prejudice. In getting to hear both sides...