What is the author's tone in To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman by Daiyun Yue?

To the Storm is written in the first-person point of view with the narrator being Yue Daiyun with the help of Carolyn Wakeman. Yue Daiyun is telling her own story so the first-person point of view is very appropriate for the book. All of the limitations of the use of the first person are operative. The reader is limited to events that take place in the presence of the narrator and learns information as the narrator learns it. The reader does not know of events that occur outside the presence of the narrator, such as what happened during Lao Tang's criticism meetings or his time spent as captive at Liang Xaio headquarters.