Point of View

The novel is written from the main character Demon Copperhead’s first person point of view. This means that Demon is writing his own story in his own words. This point of view choice is organic to Demon’s experiences and world. His first person narration also authenticates and enacts the novel’s structure and form. Demon initially addresses his reasons for telling his story in Chapter 2: “My thinking here is to put everything in the order of how it happened, give or take certain intervals of a young man skunked out of his skull box, some dots duly connected. But damn. A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it’s easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing. Assuming you’ve ended up someplace...