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Melvin Beederman: The Curse of the Bologna Sandwic.The Fourth Stall Part III by Chris Rylander.Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's.If it was first person, readers would only know what Stanley knows as he figures it out. When Zero tells Stanley his last name, it doesn't mean much to Stanley, but it is a huge “Ah-ha!” moment for readers because we know about Madame Zeroni. At the end, I’m not even sure Stanley knows how or why everything worked out with the curse - the mountain, the water, the song, etc. If Holes was told in first person point-of-view and Stanley was the narrator, readers wouldn't know anything about those other characters or events. The narrator not only tells us what happens to Stanley, but readers also learn about his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, Madame Zeroni, Miss Katherine, Sam the onion man, Trout Walker, and other characters in the past. Holes by Louis Sachar is also told in third person point-of-view.

But to me it makes more sense to have a third person narrator who has traveled through time and “seen” all of the events. Now that I think of it, I guess if each chapter was told in first person point-of-view, then readers would still know that stuff. The third person narrator tells all about previous events so readers can see how they fit together. Bits and pieces of the eight previous stories all come together. I really liked the last chapter, the ninth inning.

Actually, I guess it could be first person point-of-view, but there would need to be nine different narrators, a new one for each chapter.

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