Point of View

The point of view of Signal Fires shifts constantly throughout the novel from character to character, but it remains in third-person the entire time. Each chapter takes place during a certain day, and each sub-chapter details what each character is doing and feeling on that day, named after whichever character's perspective is being inhabited. Since the character's ages and circumstances vary so drastically, the perspectives are very different from one another, but are mostly written in the same way. It makes sense this would be the case since the narration is provided in third-person. The narrator is omniscient in the sense that the character's inner thoughts are provided during each of their chapters. Plenty of psychological shading is provided during each character's chapters.

There are several quirks that make certain characters' perspectives unique. During Mimi's chapters, it is clear that she is suffering greatly from...