Point of View

"Forever..." is told from a first-person limited viewpoint by Katherine Danziger, the heroine. Katherine Danziger is eighteen years old, and this first-person technique works to make the novel feel almost like a diary. Katherine’s first-person account of her relationship with Michael, her family and her friends, allows the reader to see inside the head of a typical eighteen-year-old girl as she struggles to find her own identity and establish her place in the world. Through this first-person narrative, Blum allows the reader the chance to understand just how powerful first love is and to understand how it does always seem as if it will last forever. The closeness and mutual education of Michael and Katherine also allows the reader to understand how, in a way, first love does last forever. The reader understands that Katherine will never forget her time with Michael and that...