What is an unreliable narrator? How does it affect a story?
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defiance
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futile
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innocence
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What is an unreliable narrator?
In storytelling, there are three separate parties that exist: Author: Creates the people and events in the story Audience: Reads and interprets the story Narrator: Presents the story
What is an unreliable narrator?
An unreliable narrator is someone that the readers can’t trust Developed by the author who usually makes a negative statement about the narrator. Unreliable narrators can be created through psychological unbalance, strong opinions, or the author’s attempt to trick the audience.
What is an unreliable narrator?
At the beginning of the story, it is immediately clear that the narrator is mentally unbalanced. The story may provide many clues about the narrator's unreliability. The narrator's unreliability is never fully revealed, but multiple hints cause the audience to question what they are reading.
Types of Unreliable narrators
The Madman
The Naif
The Clown/Trickster
The Liar
The Picar
The Madman
Sometimes the narrator is unreliable by the nature of who that character is. The character is experiencing mental illness. Some stories are narrated by such terrible people that they cannot tell stories objectively. They do not know their actions are wrong or bad, and they do not think of themselves as monsters or their actions as monstrous.
The Naif
The unreliable narrator is not always deliberately deceptive.
Sometimes, a narrator is unreliable due to youth or naivete.
This could be a child or a person who is child-like
They are simply reporting the world as he understands it, so he is not always accurately reporting the world around him/her.
Their perception is immature or limited
Example: Forest Gump
The Clown/Tricks
Sometimes the narrator purposefully tries to trick and mislead the audience.
He doesn't take the convention of narration seriously and plays with truth and expectation.
He aims to deceive the reader until the end of the story when he finally reveals his true identity in a final twist ending
The Liar
An unreliable narrator can be a mature narrator who deliberately misrepresents himself.
Sometimes to obscure his unseemly discreditable past conduct.
They can lie to hide things they don't want the audience to know about them.
The Picar
When the narrator is characterized by exaggeration and bragging he is often unreliable.
They exaggerate their abilities and what they have done and cannot be trusted to tell the truth about themselves due to bragging.
13: The Unreliable Narrator
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The
Unreliable narrator
Ms. Payne's English Class
Essential Question
What is an unreliable narrator? How does it affect a story?
Today's Lesson
This week's Vocabulary
FIRST: Click on each word to see their definition. THEN: Write them down in your notes.
conscious
>
civil
>
absolute
>
defiance
>
futile
>
contrite
>
innocence
>
idealism
>
hierarch
>
tenuous
>
Knowledge Check
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Today's Lesson
Let's get into today's lesson!
What is an unreliable narrator?
In storytelling, there are three separate parties that exist: Author: Creates the people and events in the story Audience: Reads and interprets the story Narrator: Presents the story
What is an unreliable narrator?
An unreliable narrator is someone that the readers can’t trust Developed by the author who usually makes a negative statement about the narrator. Unreliable narrators can be created through psychological unbalance, strong opinions, or the author’s attempt to trick the audience.
What is an unreliable narrator?
At the beginning of the story, it is immediately clear that the narrator is mentally unbalanced. The story may provide many clues about the narrator's unreliability. The narrator's unreliability is never fully revealed, but multiple hints cause the audience to question what they are reading.
Types of Unreliable narrators
The Madman
Sometimes the narrator is unreliable by the nature of who that character is. The character is experiencing mental illness. Some stories are narrated by such terrible people that they cannot tell stories objectively. They do not know their actions are wrong or bad, and they do not think of themselves as monsters or their actions as monstrous.
The Naif
The Clown/Tricks
The Liar
The Picar
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