The point of view throughout the story is a 1st person narrative changing between important characters to continue the story in a orderly and interesting fashion. The story contains the perspective of multiple characters to further explain the side in which they follow and believe in. Moreover, the use of different vocabulary words points in the direction that this is a first person story. Not only that but there is also the fact that there are different relationships between characters detecting the difference in character. Throughout the story the most important character is Maximum, or Max for short, we know the point of view has changed due to the fact that each character talks in there own way and due to the fact that each of their individual thinking is different. Not only that but if it suddenly changes from Max’s p.o.v to the text stating in the next chapter that something happened to Max , it shows that we aren’t listening to Max’s side anymore. It was stated in the text” After the Erasers had taken the inferior Max away from the motel, I quickly lay down in her spot and pulled the blanket over me (355)”. This obviously shows that the point of view changed between the 2 characters saying that in the previous chapter Max was going to bed and stated”Me and Fang turned the …show more content…
An easy way to spot the p.o.v can also be the vocabulary used in the sentences provided. In a first person story words that would be often used might be: me, we, I, mine and my. In a second person story, the vocabulary used changes to: your, you and you’re. In a third person story, the vocabulary changes to: he/she, him/her. In the book it was stated” I’d just gotten back with the last load of warm, dry, clean clothes, which I dumped on one of the double beds (350).” The 2 bolded words in the text can be used to see that the perspective of the story is first