Point of View

This novel is told from the third person point of view. The point of view is not omniscient, as the reader only knows what happens in the life of the main characters. However, the point of view also is not just limited to just one person, as there are three protagonists in the novel.

Arthur’s story occurs before that of Zaleekhah’s and Narin’s in history, but it is interspersed between their stories in the narrative. His story tells that of a colonizing nation attempting to take ancient artifacts that do not belong to them back to its own people. While modern day readers understand the moral problems with this act, Westerners during Arthur’s time would have really believed they were doing the world a favor by bringing the items to the West where they believed they were safer. As Arthur’s...