René

René narrates the book in first-person, retrospective narration. As a narrator, René knows everything that occurs in the novel before he has actually narrated the events to the reader, for René narrates the novel after everything has occurred. For this reason, René the narrator often employs prolepsis, alerting the reader of what will happen in the future long before the novel actually gets to that point in time. For example, René the narrator often says things like, "I should have known there would be trouble. But I was thinking of other things" (215). Here, René as a narrator alerts the reader that later on in the novel, trouble will befall the Golden brothers. However, René does not reveal the precise nature of this trouble. In this way, René the narrator takes on a level of omniscience and power over the reader, for he has complete knowledge of the story...