Point of View

This novel is told by a third-person narrator. This narrator is omniscient and unbiased. Consider some of the first sentences of the novel: “She wasn’t. But her sister and her brother had both learned how to ride their bikes before they turned six, and Abby was a few weeks away from her seventh birthday, and her dad had already spent twenty minutes taking the training wheels off her bike” (1). Abby is referred to using the third person pronouns “her” and “she” proving that the author is using a third person narrator. The narrator is omniscient in that he knows and describes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all the characters. He is unbiased in that he does not judge any of the characters or appear to be in favor of them. The narrator also does not include his thoughts on any of the actions...