Point of view is the way the author allows you to "see" and "hear" what is going on. There are three kinds of point of view; first person narrative, second person narrative and third person narrative. Third person narrative consists of; third person omniscient, third person limited and third person objective. I won't go into defining the various points of view because I found a video on Youtube that explains it with examples, so I don't want to rehash what you'll see in the video.
What I will say though, is that The Boogeyman is told from a first person point of view. Reason being, the protagonist's story is a very personal story so it would be best if it is told from her point of view, otherwise it won't be believable. It is also a way of getting readers to put themselves in her shoes, to feel like part of the story, to feel like her experiences are their experiences, to feel like her goals and her hopes and dreams are theirs too.
The setting of a story is simply the time in which the story takes place and also the place. The Boogeyman is set in 2012 and it takes place in central Trinidad, Chaguanas to be exact, to be even more accurate it takes place in Edinburgh 500 and Lange Park. Why does it take place in two different parts of Chaguanas? I wanted to have a contrast, not a big contrast mind you between where the protagonist is from and where the antagonist is from.
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