If I Forget Thee, O Earth...

It the work presented objectively or subjectively?

This is for my critical evaluation required for my school work. Thanks.

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The story is told from the level of the third-person narrator. He describes all the actions, boy’s feelings, Father’s speech on behalf of the 3rdperson. Some sentences seem to be both on 2nd and 3rd (actually all are on 3rd ). The narrator is calm himself (objective) though he is quite dynamic when picturing the motion of the ship and the inner feelings of Marvin. Marvin on behalf of the author becomes anxious, also this feeling changes into understanding. Reader may be surprised and somewhat depressed. Mood is not totally pessimistic; in the end of the story it is replaced by the optimism and hope, though it is postponed for some generations.