The words of our childhood...

By using a very common style of writing, Nicole Krauss tells The History of Love by shifting narration and views between two very strongly spoken people that we saw in the first section of reading, Including our main character, Leo. Alma, a character that is learning to adapt to losing her family, even after years of growing up, is telling the story by her standards and through her eyes. While Leo is still struggling through his every day, same schedule, same routine, a routine that we get the feeling will begin to change very rapidly.

Alma's chapters of the novel are based on dialogue and details that makes her more relatable. In every chapter there is a a different length for special effects in order to make the reader connect. Leo's chapters are more of an internal narration. His chapters avoid dialogue and focus more on his struggles with family, life, love, and loss. He is a much less lively character to Alma's more positive outlook on what she can make her life to be. Leo does not have much life left to improve and he makes it very clear throughout his narration.

The following chapters are narrated by the novel The History of Love, which is represented my the image of a novel at the beginning of each chapter. In these passages the narration is done by Mr. Singer who we assume throughout the novel is Alma's father. These chapters are noticeably different from the narration so done by Alma and Leo because it is mostly about the past and story telling of the life of Zvi Litvinoff and her meeting Mr. Singer.

The addition of Mr. Singer as a narrator is incredibly important to the style in which the story is told and the novel itself. These sections of the novel change our view about relationships throughout the novel. Through the reading of the added sections and background of The History of Love we see new relationships and ones that will play a huge role in the outcome of many characters.