Point of View

The novel has four distinct points of view: Sophie, Allen, Walt, and Josh. Sophie and Allen are the two main narrators, through their diaries. Sophie's diary is a few months behind Allen's for a majority of the novel. Allen begins in March as their expedition is beginning, while Sophie begins in January a month before Allen leaves. As the novel reaches its' end, Sophie catches up to Allen until their final entries are both on the same day. Both narrators share their deepest thoughts, and both admit they are writing to share their experiences and emotions – no matter how happy or sad – with the other. The reader gets the rawest emotion possible, creating two reliable and relatable narrators.

Walt and Josh's point of view, however, is told in letters to each other and contains less of their deepest thoughts and more prolonged conversation. This is...