Point of View

The End of October is told by a third-person narrator. There is a focus on Henry as he grapples to find either a cure or vaccine for Kongoli. He also struggles with his guilt because it was an agent he created that killed Teddy’s parents and the rest of that tribe. When Henry goes to this village to see if anyone survived: “The image he had been holding at bay his entire life forced itself into his mind: his own parents, sprawled on the jungle floor. Just like this. Killed because of some madman’s fantasy” (296). This third-person narrator is able to record not only Henry’s thoughts and feelings, but also the thoughts and feelings of other characters. This is significant because many of the characters are representatives of a larger whole. Tildy, for instance, represents the politicians too worried about international relations...