comment on structure

The novel is divided into sixteen chapters, each with a title that expresses an event or object that will be important to the plot that develops in that chapter. Each chapter is fairly long, most an average of fifteen to twenty pages. The plot is told in a linear time line, with a clear beginning, middle, and end. The novel is written in both dialogue and exposition, including some amount of internal dialogue, especially in the chapters in which Rod Walker is alone and attempting to survive on an unknown planet.