comment on point of view

This novel is written from the first-person point of view of eleven-year-old Bug. Consider bug’s statement: “I already know my house is haunted” (1). She refers to herself as “I” (1) and uses the first-person possessive adjective “my” (1) to describe her house. The first-person point of view is ideal because Bug is telling the story of her discovery of her identity. She captures her early feelings of not being completely comfortable with who she is, such as when she looks in the mirror and sees “a face that isn’t quite mine. Almost mine. But different enough that it gives me a shock every time” (10). Bug details her search for her identity in connection with her journey to discover what her dead uncle’s spirit is trying to tell her. Bug’s journey is complete when she looks in the mirror at herself with a shaved head and thinks of her reflection: “And it’s me. Just me. There he is, I think” (154).