Point of View

“The Minority Report” utilizes a third-person point of view that maintains significant distance from the inner world of the characters. One consequence of this distance is the establishment of a tone of pure objectivism, with the reader feeling like the narrator is only reporting simple facts. While there are many mysteries in the story, including several questions about character motivation, the reader becomes aware of these issues primarily through the objective reporting of actions and events, instead of deep explorations into the minds of the characters. For the vast majority of the story, the focal character for the third-person point of view is our protagonist John Anderton, and only in a few sentences in the story do we dip into the point of view of a different character.

Language and Meaning

The most significant thing to notice about the author’s use of language in...