Michael Grant's Gone In Third Person Point Of View

The author, Michael Grant, wrote Gone in third person point of view. It works for the way he is telling the story, through the first couple pages I was confused because I couldn’t tell if he was a character. Now that I am further along in the book, it makes a lot more sense and is told in a better way than it would be in first person view. Grant is not biased in anyway, he is simply telling what happened. To begin with, the book is told in third person view. You can go to any page in this book and see that it is written in third person point of view, but here are a few examples. “Trembling, she lifted her right arm. It moved. Slowly she clenched her right fist. The fingers came together. It was not possible. It was not possible. What she was seeing could not be.” This evidence from page 101, shows how the text is written in third person view. If it wasn’t Grant would’ve been speaking as the character, Lana, as she was lifting her arm. She was alone in the woods at this time so if it was in first person view Grant would’ve used words such as “I”, or “my.” On page 124 the book states, “He wanted to yell to her to step back from the edge. but she

Such as I quoted in the paragraph above, “Caine surprised him then and actually patted him on the back. ‘Don’t sell yourself short, Jack.’ … Panda had limped over to join them. Drake handed him the binoculars.” In this quote, Grant talks about a couple different characters. He does this throughout the whole book, so if the book was told in first person, it would become confusing as he is talking about the different characters. On page 121 is another good example, “When [Mary] was done she brushed her teeth. She went back downstairs. Took hold of the bags and began dragging them to the day