Land of the Lost There are some people who aren’t able to relax in their spare time. Even though they live a normal life, working at their jobs from nine to five, they need a something to occupy them, a hobby for example. They need a hobby or something like that to occupy their thoughts, even though they, most likely, are tired from a hard day’s work. This is their way of relaxing because it puts their focus on something else rather than the stress, which in exists in their everyday life. However, if the thing or action which they’re obsessed with is taken away from them, some might become desperate to find something new, which can give them the same kind of thrill. The main theme in Land of the Lost is loneliness. Land of the Lost is a short story written by Stewart O’Nan. The story is being told by a limited third person narrator, but and it starts in medias res. Land of the Lost is about a middle-aged divorced woman, who lives alone with her dog. When she’s not working as a cashier, she’s spending all of her spare time searching for a local girl’s dead body. Her obsession begun after she heard a man, James Wade, admitting to burying the girl. She hasn’t told anyone about her new occupation, and her German shepherd named Ollie is her only friend, who follows her everywhere.

The narrator in the Land of the Lost

As mentioned before, the story moves around a single person and her thoughts, and makes use of the third person limited point of view, which restricts the narrator to tell us about the feelings and actions of one person only. Even though there are a few other characters than the woman, the story is told through her feelings and actions, the other characters are presented externally only, almost subjectively through the woman’s thoughts.
It gives the reader a feeling of being close, and confident with the character, mainly because the