Journey to an 800 Number

Konigsburg is the master of show, don't tell. The only way to understand how the boy is feeling, usually, is to figure how one's self might feel in a situation, and think about whether the character would likely feel the same way. It's very much a book told from the character's pov, not from a narrator's. For example, there are disrespectful ('politically incorrect') bits but that's because our boy is, as one adult observes, 'young for his age,' and he hasn't figured out empathy yet. This is for the young reader that is tired of being talked down to and can understand unreliable narrator, satire, gray ethics, etc.

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