Point of View

The point of view and the identity of the narrator change from frame to frame as this novel progresses. For instance, in a frame on Page 5, as the students are running to look at the lists that have just been posted for the school trips, Jordan says: “I hope we all got picked to go to Paris!” (5) Drew responds, “So do I!” (5). In the frames that include only conversation, the students quoted are considered to be narrators as they are telling the story.

Jordan serves as a third-person narrator in the frames in which some descriptions are necessary to tell the story. For instance, as the novel draws to an end, Craft uses caption boxes to give the reader information about the changes that take place in Jordan’s school during the last several weeks of classes. Jordan serves as the first-person narrator for these...