What point of view is this example told from: and we scrounged. next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary. we found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving brad and katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. i truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone. we let her have one of the mattresses.