Point of View

The point of view of Foster is first-person -- we experience the entire novella through the eyes of the main character, a nameless roughly 10-year-old girl. At the outset of the novella, her point of view is evidently one of an anxious mind, and we are party to threats that she perceives that may not be tangibly appearing in the real world. Plus, she is still only a child, and a child from a home that harbors some darkness in the form of her alcoholic father, the family's poverty, and her many siblings that divide her mother's attention, so her perspective (especially in the beginning) brings with it a lot of fear related to all of those things. She is not necessarily an "unreliable" narrator, per se, but there are definitely at least a couple of moments throughout the events of the novella where it...