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Unreliable Narrator
Where the narrator's point of view is unreliable and cannot be trusted.
Quite often these narrators (the people telling the story) have issues, which affect their judgement/truth. Because of this, their credibility is seriously compromised.
For example they can be:
--heavily medicated
--suffering from a form of depression or traumatic stress related illness
--loss of memory though a head bump
--loss of memory through dementia
--lying to cover up something (often they are murderers)
--just plain old crazy
Types of unreliable narrators (from WIki):
Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immedi ...more
Quite often these narrators (the people telling the story) have issues, which affect their judgement/truth. Because of this, their credibility is seriously compromised.
For example they can be:
--heavily medicated
--suffering from a form of depression or traumatic stress related illness
--loss of memory though a head bump
--loss of memory through dementia
--lying to cover up something (often they are murderers)
--just plain old crazy
Types of unreliable narrators (from WIki):
Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immedi ...more
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... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but on
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― Peace
― Peace
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The sun’s rays reflected on the letters of the cover, blinding, and she hoped it symbolized the final battle. She had always known that the last book would be the most intriguing of all. Long ago she had imagined it would be a fantastic book with characters as unreliable as possible...
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― Terror in Paradise
― Terror in Paradise
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