Questions to Consider:

Perspective

• Through what point of view is this account told: first, second, or third person?
• What possibilities for participating in the world does this perspective suggest?

Social processes among characters

• Who are the people or characters in the book?
• Who is named and who isn’t?
• Who speaks? Who acts?
• Examine how power is exercised among the characters: Who dominates, colludes, resists, and takes action for individual and collective benefit?
• How are the characters in the story discussed?  How do they discuss and describe themselves vs. how do others in the story talk about and describe them? 
• What roles do the characters take on, try out, or perform (for example, caregiver, worker, teacher) with what they say and do?