Point of View & Setting in "Drown"

Setting-The setting of drown seemed to be in a low income neighborhood.  It was the mom and the main character living there and they hardly had any money.  The main character was swearing alot which portrayed that his life was not easy.  The atmosphere within the story was kind of a sad atmosphere, along with a built up of anger.  There were gangs I believe where they lived or around where they lived.  There was lots of violence, lots of breaking and entering, and lots of selling drugs but the kids didn't care.  Thats more the social environment for which the setting was in.

Point of View-The kid who is telling the story is a major character who tells the story from the First-person narrator.  Which means he's a huge participant in the book, and he tells it from what he sees and only what he sees.  We didn't read how the mother thought of everything or Beto or the dad.  We saw it from only the narrator's perspective.