Point of View

This story is written in third-person perspective, in past tense. The narrator appears to be predominantly limited to Belisa Crepusculario ’s perspective, with some exceptions. Most of the insight about other characters and events are filtered through Belisa Crepusculario’s thoughts and opinions, but some exposition is more general in order to establish the context of the story. For example, the narrator describes the struggle of some families who “had begun the march [to the coast] carrying their belongings” (4), but who had soon been forced to abandon possessions. Belisa Crepusculario would not know this information, but the narrator establishes this to demonstrate the tribulations of surviving the drought.

Despite the narration being limited to Belisa Crepusculario’s perspective, it is still in third-person perspective and not a direct description of Belisa Crepusculario’s thoughts. Instead, the descriptions of plot events and characters lead the reader...