Journal #5

Journal #5

Chapter 4 focuses on point of view. I think the most interesting point of view that they covered in this chapter was the unreliable first person. I think having an unreliable narrator makes a story have a level of depth that is hard to accomplish through description alone. I really like how it helps us see how someone with mental illness may think or how their thoughts may be organized in different ways. I like the challenge an unreliable narrator introduces when I’m a reader of a story, as it forces us to think about how the narrator’s perception of the world may be warping the reality of the situation. The point about no narrator being reliable was really interesting to me; They may be honest and tell the truth as they understand it based on the context that they have, but they’ll never have a true understanding of a situation that a third person narrator might have.

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