Tuesday, 10 December 2019

We Notice A POV Change

"Lodestar."

"The work killed her, crowded out terror and sometimes the memory of David.
"Appalled, Nadi watched his quarry vanish off his telltales." (p. 404)

The first of these two sentences refers to Coya Conyon but, even if we did not know that, the change from "her" to "his" would alert us to a change of narrative point of view between paragraphs.

On the following page, one paragraph begins:

"He could do nothing but hope she would never reappear." (p. 405)

"He" is still Nadi whereas this "she" is the Ythrian spaceship - with Coya on board.

In the next paragraph:

"When Coya could glance from her desk, she saw blaze in the screens." (ibid.)

So the pov has changed back again. Really, I think that Nadi's pov should have had its own passage and we would then have learned more about him.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

What interested me was how we see even a non-human like Captain Nadi opting the human custom of referring to ships as "she".

Ad astra! Sean