Use Of A Narrator In W. M. Aker's At The Office

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In “At the Office” by W.M. Akers, the author uses a narrator to tell the story, so it is told in third person. The main character is Albert, is left alone in his mom’s office building, while his mom went to finish something up. “Albert didn’t have anything to look forward to but homework. A few years earlier, he had relished these late-night trips to his mom’s office... If he was honest with himself—and this was a hard thing to admit—the quiet office made him a little bit scared.” With the article being told by a narrator, it explains Albert's feelings on his mom’s office then and now. He used to think it was really fun, although now he thinks he’s too old, although he is a little bit scared because he thought he heard a monster. “Sneaking