Point of View

This novel is written from the point of view of a third-person narrator with an emphasis on Pax and Peter. Chapters alternate between an emphasis on Pax and an emphasis on Peter. Consider the opening sentence of Chapter 1: “Pax ran. / He always ran — nearly a year after he’d last been caged, his muscles still remembered the hex wire” (1). Pax is referred to by his name and then the third person pronouns “him,” “he,” and “his.” The narrator treats Peter’s sections similarly. Consider the opening sentence of Chapter 2: “Peter crouched over the offending floorboard and traced the ridge that rippled all the way down” (4). Again, Peter is referred to by his name, signaling his story will be told in the third person point of view as well.

Since Pax's and Peter’s stories are unconnected until their reunion near the end of the novel...