Quote Originally Posted by Witch_Doctor View Post
One can also argue that Micheal is not the soul narrator of the story, but that the audience is simply able to view it from the perspective of a number of central characters, i.e. we see it because s/he sees it. However, what suggests otherwise is the fact that on at least one occasion, Saul's and Angel's scavenging mission that takes place BEFORE the journals were mandatory, Micheal states that he is relating what he was told after the fact.
I took all that to mean that, early on, Michael was taking what others told him and was writing it in his journal. After around Chapter 4, many others started writing their own journals and most of the events we, the listeners, know about comes from any of the journals that were kept. I think the story is meant to be a narrative of the collection of journals that the survivors kept.

It could prove very interesting to see that there is no "character" reading the journals. Instead it is "us" who have somehow fund them and are trying to piece together some significant events that have led to where we are today.

Maybe we are "new recruits" in the Battle of the Zed and these journals are required reading for anyone joining the fight...

The mind boggles at the many paths this could follow!