Saving Max

Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten is a crime mystery novel about a mother and her son. Danielle Parkman is a single mother who has amalgamated a prosperous career as an attorney with parenting her teenage son Max, who has Asperger's syndrome. As the story begins, Danielle's parenting skills are being tested by Max's violent outbursts and she is concerned for his emotional health because of his expression of suicidal thoughts, violent behavior, and drug use. Danielle takes Max to a psychiatric hospital for an assessment in the hope of finding a treatment which will help to manage his volatile behavior. The assessment leads to a recommendation, that Max requires in-patient treatment for more specialized psychiatric assistance, so he is admitted to the nation’s top notch psychiatric facility, Maitland Psychiatric Asylum. For a little while, it looks
The story is told from a third person all-knowing narrator point of view throughout the novel, and only changing which character is followed or spoken about mostly at the start of every chapter. Because this type of narrative is an all-knowing perspective in which a narrator outside of the literary work tells the story, the reader is able to determine what any character thinks or feels. This is a great writing style for this story because not only can the reader associate on a personal level with Danielle, the striving mother and the main character of the book, but the reader can also hear the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that other main and supporting characters.in order to develop the other characters and the plot of the story. With the use of a third person narrative, the story almost seems more captivating and exciting; as if the reader must explore the events of the novel as if it were personally affecting them. This type of perspective not only shows the reader the thinking process and emotions of all the characters but includes the reader on a deeper level as