Point of View

The novel is written in first person from the limited perspectives of Andrew and Jamie. The two teenage boys take turns controlling the narrative. This means there are some situations that the reader sees from both perspectives. For example, Jamie reveals the pain in the moments after he realizes he has been shot. Andrew describes his terror that Jamie might die. The two characters do not know everything about each other, meaning the reader sometimes has more information than either of the characters. For example, Jamie thinks about the fact that his mother wanted him to kill her when she was dying an agonizing death from the flu. He could not do that, and he had hidden the pain pills because he did not want her to kill herself. He does not reveal that to Andrew until much later. There are some situations that the...