Unreliable Or Reliable Narrator?

1. Is your narrator reliable? How do you know? Are there clues provided to allow you to trust the narrator or not?

2. What purpose would there be to have an unreliable narrator in the story?

3. How does your belief in the reliability of the narrator effect your reading and interpretation of the story?

4. Have you read or viewed other stories with unreliable narrators? Can you make any connections between that and your current story?

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1. Yes, the narrator seems to be very reliable, because she knows the characterss and what they are going through. The way she describes how the characters feel an act gives me enough evidence that she's reliable.

2. You wouldn't be able to follow the story line if you had an unreliable narrator. You wouldn't be able to believe the narrator as they go along telling the story. When the reader and the narrator of a book don't share a bond, it makes the reader uninterested.

3. When you know the narrator is reliable, you tend to believe everything the narrator is saying. It makes the story more intriguing because you never stop to doubt the facts.

4. Yes, the Tell-Tale Heart has an unreliable narrator. It doesn't relate to our narrator though.