Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?
Second Person
"The People Could Fly" is a version of a popular oral folk tale. Traditionally, stories like this are recited to an audience, who sometimes become involved in the call-and-response of the story themselves. Although it's not clear that "The People Could Fly" uses a second-person narrator at first, this becomes established when the narrator says that she "told [the story] to you" (33). At this moment, we realize that she's speaking directly to us, as if we were friends exchanging tales.