What Is Justin Cronin's Point Of View Of The Passage

For many years, the end of the world has been a fascination of many humans. Many people assume the world will end in big floods similar to that of the Noah’s Ark or like the Walking dead where zombies take over the world. Justin Cronin has tried to show how he thinks the world will end in his novel, The Passage. When reading the story, the reader is shown a new world ending that entails a mixture of folklore from various places. Justin Cronin began working his ideas for this book when his daughter asked him to write a story that depicts a girl saving the universe back in 2006.
He then decided to a book that joined elements of multiple genres, science fiction, horror and fantasy. He aspired to have his characters be like a real-world organism, and that is what he did.
He decided to name his novel “The Passage” as it elaborates a characters journey, a journey from life to death. Justin has written other books such as “The Worst Dream in The World” and “The New Thing” which also tell a story of the ending times. He always ensures all his books are centred on a particular subject before diving it into chapters as seen in his novel, “The Passage.”
Justin’s book, “The Passage” begins with a group of scientists coming together to research on the various ways humankind can be improved. These scientists undertake their project, Project Noah, in the jungles of Bolivia but as time goes by, the project goes wrong, and as a result, the test subjects are released (Cronin, 2010).
Most of the scientist test subjects included murderers, and even sociopaths as the society viewed them as evil. The scientist core objective was to create a new immunity-boosting drug and just like any other experiment test subjects were compulsory. In less than an hour after the escape of the test subject, the world is seen plunging into chaos, and this signifies the end of the world.
To show the drastic transformation, Justin begins his story in a world that is similar to the world we live in now, and after a few horrific events, the world changes and the humans are surrounded by the remnants of a moment before (Cronin, 2010). In many instances, Justin has switched the first person point of view and the third person and third person as evidenced in his chapters.
For example, the audience is introduced to Jeanette Belafonte who is the mother to the Amy Harper as seen in section one.
The audience sees Jeanette in the first seventeen pages, and later she disappears. Justin can use the third person point of view to tell a background story to the audience of Amy, who was a character of great importance within the story. Amy was a girl from Nowhere who had lived a thousand years.
When it comes to writing about “The Many”, Cronin employs the usage of the third person point of view to explain his story to the readers. “The Many” stood for all the vampires who had descended from the Babcock or rather, the first test subjects. The reason behind him using the third person point of view is to show that despite their thoughts being synced as one, they were many.
In some instances, Cronin has used the technique of the first person point of view throughout the novel. In numerous chapters in the book, Cronin is seen selecting one character and decided to tell the story of the whole section in their perspective. The reason behind him employing this rhetorical device is to give the readers an opportunity get to know the character and be in a position of identifying
him/her.

The book has been explained in numerous ways that make the book unique and exciting, for instance, the second chapter is elaborated in a chain of emails from the scientist who was in charge of project Noah, Dr Jonas Lear, and his college in Harvard. From the emails, the reader gets to learn about the reason behind the group of scientist working in the jungle (Cronin, 2010).
With the help of these emails, Cronin can create suspense as the emails stop the moment people begin disappearing. With this, the reader becomes curious and wants to read more to learn what the fate of Dr Lear was after the project was dissolved. Sara, a character who plays a crucial role in ensjuri9ng the survival of humans, gets an opportunity to tell her side of the story in numerous journal entries that begin after a group leaves homes in search of a beacon that calls on Amy. The reader gets a chance to know Sara as a character and knows everything she did throughout the story.
The novel “The Passage” can be labelled as a science fiction as it associates modern science with mythological creatures that have been created from the stimulation of the thymus glands. For all individual who is obsessed with a post-apocalyptic world, “The Passage” is the novel to read courtesy of Justin Cronin. The book just shows how survival is necessary and just how far people can go even; leaving their families behind in the name of survival. It comes with a price.