Crossing to Safety and The Sweet Hereafter
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Crossing to Safety and The Sweet Hereafter The long summer has led me to produce a few thoughts on the assigned summer reading. While reading the books The Sweet Hereafter and Crossing to Safety I have discovered the importance of first person. By comparing the books I have found how the first person viewpoint relates to the characters, the action, and how the novels differ by author in their style of writing. The Sweet Hereafter has an interesting approach to sending us on a journey through the story. By having four narrators we get to see all the angles around the main event. One narration in particular, Billy Ansel, gives us an eye witness account of the featured action in the novel. "The swerve off the road to the right, the skid, the smashing of the guard rail and the snow bank; and then the tilted angled plummet down...

