Narrator and point of view

In the excerpt from the novel Salaam Brick Lane by Tarquin Hall, the narrator is also the author, who writes the book to document his experience of spending a year in London’s East End.

As the author is also the narrator, the use of the first-person narrator is visible through the multiple uses of the personal pronoun “I”, like in the following examples: “I had been living away from England” (p. 80, l. 1), “I was also broke” (p. 80, l. 17), “I reached Whitechapel” (p. 81...