Point of View

Three Sisters is written from a third-person limited point of view. The author utilizes this perspective in order to divulges the inner thoughts of Cibi, Magda, and Livi and give equal weight to each character’s experience within the narrative. This lens allows the author to tell the story of all three women without giving a hierarchy to their varying experiences during the Holocaust; the reader sympathizes with Cibi, who sacrifices her own safety for her younger sister, Magda who evades imprisonment for years, and Livi who enters Auschwitz as a child. The third-person limited point of view gives validity to the trauma and pain each woman suffers and serves to remind the reader that suffering should never be compared. If the novel had been written from a first-person point of view, exclusively through the lens of one of the sisters, the reader would emotionally...