Point of View

The novel is written from a first person point of view, and focuses solely on Tierney’s perspective. Because Tierney is a young, teenage girl, her perspective is often a naïve one, as she faces many new things in this coming of age narrative. Since the reader is limited to Tierney’s point of view, her knowledge and opinions shape the reader’s own understanding of the fictional world. Thus, at times Tierney can be an unreliable narrator. For example, because Tierney only understands poachers as violent predators, the reader may be persuaded to believe that poachers the novel’s primary antagonist. However, once Tierney learns to throw her biases aside, the reader learns to humanize poachers alongside her. Tierney can also be un unreliable narrator for the fact that while the reader is given direct access to Tierney’s thoughts and perceptions, Liggett...