Point of View

Jay tells this story from his first person point of view in the present tense. Jay is an unreliable narrator since he only knows what the other characters tell him. It is because Jay is unreliable that his search for the truth about Jun and his coming of age is such a striking story. Jay begins as a self-centered teen who is not even aware that the president of the Philippines allows everyday citizens to shoot people who abuse or sell drugs. When Jay learns that his cousin has been killed as part of this drug war, he begins to learn more about his home country. Jay is struck by the differences in the rights enjoyed by Americans and those that Filipinos does not have.

The first person point of view is really the idea way for this story to be told since it allows...