Point of View

Because Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird is a collection of short stories, each of the collected stories is written from a distinct point of view. The stories “A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound,” “Candy Pink,” “The Wolf’s Breath,” and “The Solitary Ones” are all written from the second person point of view. The stories “Roberto,” “Unamuno’s Boxes,” “Earth,” “The Dead,” “Elena-Marie Sandoz,” “No Tears,” and “Mary Carminum” are all written from the first person point of view. The stories “Anita and Happiness,” “Dishwasher,” “Perfect Symmetry,” “Teicher vs. Nietzsche,” "The Slowness of Pleasure,” “The Continuous Equality of the Circumference,” “A Hole Hides a House,” “Hell,” and “Architecture” are all written from the third person point of view.

These latter stories, however, do not all follow the same rules of point of view. This means that some of the stories, including “Anita and Happiness...