Point of View

The Rabbit Hutch is written from both the third and the first person points of view. The majority of the chapters appear in the third person point of view. These chapters trace Blandine’s, Joan’s, and Moses’s storylines. The first person chapters are written from Jack’s perspective. These sections employ the direct address, thus enacting Jack’s distinct circumstances. In “Hear Me Out,” for example, Jack says: “You probably think that Todd is the reason I’m talking to you now. What if I told you that he was the gentlest of us three? The one who hated the animal sacrificing the most” (53). The reader later learns in “Mostly Rabbits,” that the individual Jack is addressing throughout his chapters is in fact a policeman, Officer Stevens. Jack’s chapters thus reflect Jack’s time in the interrogation room with the officer following...