Point of View

The Glass Kingdom is from the perspective of an omniscient, third-person narrator who presents the events of the novels without commentary. The narrator can see into the thoughts, feelings, and memories of all the characters, explaining their innermost thoughts. While the narrator is omniscient overall, Osborne often limits the narration to the perspective of specific characters in certain chapters and scenes, to focus on the internal struggles and emotions of a single character. Osborne most often uses the narrator to show Sarah’s perspective, especially in the first chapters of the novel. Sarah’s viewpoint is the most significant, as she is the protagonist and the novel is centered on her downfall. As the novel progresses, the narrator switches to the perspectives of other characters like Roland, Goi, Ximena, Natalie, Pop and Ms. Lim. Other than a few observations that Mali thinks in the first...