Perspective

The majority of the book is written in the first person narrative perspective. This means that the person telling the story is the author himself, and he delivers his views and relates events according to his own perception of them. The author does not supply any insight into the motives, feelings, or actions of any other people and can only relate instances about these people from his own point of view. When there are conversations detailed, the author can simply relate what the other person says, and although the author may guess at the other person's thoughts, he cannot share them with the reader. The exception to the first person narrative point of view is a very lengthy chapter describing a phone conversation between the author and another person, in which the other person delivers a long diatribe of events punctuated by personal thoughts and feelings about those...