Point of View

The 31 stories collected in Echo Tree are each written from a distinct point of view. By writing the short stories from a range of perspectives, the author lends a thematic expansiveness to his collected works. Stories written from the third person point of view include, "Echo Tree," "The Crossing," "Goodbye, Sweetwater," "A Boll of Roses," "A Harlem Game," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?," "Fon," "The Marchers," "The Eagle the Dove and the Blackbird," "Harlem," "The University of Man," "Rope of Wind," "Invasion," "The Lake," "Thrust Counter Thrust," "The Man Who Could See Through Fog," "The Bewitching Bag," "The Metagenesis of Sunra," and "Riot or Revolt?." Each of these stories, however, takes a different approach to the third person point of view narration. For example, in stories like "Harlem" and "The University of Man," the third person narrator is limited to the main characters' Harold's and...