story through a few vantage points. For instance, most of the book is about the narrator's adventures, but then several chapters are about the narrator's brother's adventures, and a few paragraphs go up to a bird's-eye view of the situation, as if all of humanity (or at least all of England) were the protagonist. In some ways, we could say that the narrator's story and the narrator's brother's story are two varieties of the same story – the "aliens land, what do you do?"
