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Among the Hidden chapters 1-14
I’m doing a point of view journal on “Among the Hidden” by Margret Peterson Haddix, chapters 1-14. The point of view is third person. I know this because there are no “I”s,”We”s,”Ours”, or”Mine”s, and all of the characters are “named” (we don’t know the actual names of Luke’s parents, the other families in the neighborhood, or the shadow girl from chapter 14 (who I suspect is the Jen talked about on the back cover.)) I think the story, so far anyway, wouldn’t change much if Luke was the story teller we can tell pretty well from his actions and words how he feels. However, if it was from Jen’s point of view, the story would change quite a bit. We’d get to hear the story of her move to Luke’s neighborhood from wherever she lived before, why she had to move, how she felt about hiding, and a whole bunch of other stuff about her. Of course, the same thing would happen if she was the main character instead of Luke…
Article posted October 29, 2009 at 08:23 AM •
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