No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger | Style

Narrative Point of View
‘‘The Mysterious Stranger’’ is narrated in the first-person voice by August Feldner, a sixteenyear- old printer’s apprentice. Thus, all of the events of the story are related solely from August’s pointof- view. This limited first-person narrative pointof- view is central to the story. Toward the end, Number 44 asserts that everything in August’s universe is a creation of his own imagination. Because the story is told from August’s perspective, it is entirely possible that he has merely imagined these people, places, and events, or even...

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