Point of View

With the exception of "A Doll Tornado" and "A Full-Service Shelter," all the stories in "Sing to It" are told from a first-person, female point of view. This allows the reader to become fully immersed in the thoughts and actions of the narrator, including their reflections on any events that are transpiring around them. The immediacy of the point of view provides unfettered access to the deepest corners of a character's minds, especially in story like "Cloudland," where the narrator has a secret that she has never told before. Because of the first-person point of view, the reader not only has access to this secret, but to the narrator's feelings surrounding the secret as well. Similarly, the first-person point of view also provides the space for the metaphorical and symbolic elements present in the narrator's mind, a strategy used in stories like "Sing to It...