Point of View

I Will Find You is written from both the first and third person points of view. Roughly half of the novel is guided by the protagonist David Burroughs’s first person perspective. The remaining half is guided by a third person narrator. This third person narrator attends to the primary characters’ vantage points, and thus often employs free indirect discourse. This means that the narrator will shift inside the primary characters’ consciousnesses and make declarations or assertions that align with this character’s manner of seeing. For example, in Chapter 12, the narrator is situated behind Rachel’s consciousness. While “having breakfast at the Nesbitt Station Diner,” Rachel thinks about the case, wondering, “Matthew alive. Seriously, how crazy pants was that theory anyway” (102, 103)? These lines are written in the third person point of view. However, the narrator is adopting Rachel’s thought patterns and offering them...