Point of View

Land of Milk and Honey is written from the first person point of view of the unnamed main character. By writing the novel from her protagonist’s first person perspective, the narrator is centralizing the narrative’s key conflicts and tensions within the narrator’s internal world. Indeed, even before the smog took over the narrator’s world, the narrator admits in Chapter 3 that “A universe within me had already been flickering out. By the time I set foot on that mountain I felt myself to be a void, a null space, a set of hands for hire” (34). Her emptied state of mind, body, and being, therefore, dictates the way that she sees, experiences, and processes the world around her. As a seemingly blank state at the start of her mountain stay, the narrator proves to be not only open but vulnerable to the manipulations...