The novel “The Fifth Rule” is written in the third person limited point of view and alternates through the perspective of two characters, Chad Kennedy (known as Reef) and Elizabeth Hemmings (known as Leeza). These two characters are separated due to a restraining order requested by Leeza’s controlling mother in order to end their past relationship with each other. When Reef decides that he wants to meet up with Leeza in order to apologize to her, “his head [whirls] with indecision” (Aker 111), which shows the third person point of view. This narrative point of view can also be seen in Leeza’s perspective when “[she] feels an overwhelming sense of her own disaster” (Aker 114) when she believes that Reef is somewhere around her. This is important