The narrative point of view of this book can be determined within the first few pages. Readers are informed that the narrative perspective is the first person perspective. The narrator talks about himself using the first person "I" and says things like "Mark and me..." The narrator of the story is Bryon Douglas, and he is narrating events of his life that happened when he was a teenager. The first person perspective really allows readers to deeply come to know Bryon as we are experiencing things as he experiences them. We know his thoughts and emotions, so we develop a closeness to him. The disadvantage of the first person narration is that readers aren't privy to as much information about other characters. We only know what Mark is thinking if Mark says something about it to Bryon. That sense of the unknown about Mark is important because readers end up being equally confused and hurt by the changes that Mark undergoes throughout the novel.