Point of View

The Vaster Wilds is written from the third person point of view. Throughout the majority of the narrative, this third person narrator lives in closest proximity to the main character Lamentations’ psyche. This means that the narrator is predominantly describing the narrative world according to how Lamentations is experiencing and processing it. The narrator is therefore frequently inhabiting Lamentations’ consciousness and thus delivering her thoughts and feelings, questions and fears to the reader. The reader might refer to a passage from Chapter 1 in order to better understand this close relationship between the narrator and protagonist: “Into the night the girl ran and ran, and the cold and the dark and the wilderness and her fear and the depth of her losses, all things together, dwindled the self she had once known down to nothing. A nothing is no thing, a nothing is a thing with...