Narrator

Narrator is the person who is telling the story for us, they can be either trustable or untrustable. Sometimes, narrator can't be trusted is because of the exaggeration, they make thing sounds too exaggerated, which has a high possibility that it is not true. In the story "Tell-Tale Heart'', the narrator says that he is just nervous, and he isn't crazy. He needs to kill the old man, just because of his eyes are making him uncomfortable, even that old man treat him nice. The man takes a hour just to take a look. Even though the narrator says that he is not a crazy person, but from his speech and his action, we can't really believe that he is a normal person. I am not very sure about why the autor will create a unreliable character, mabye he just wants the reader to think more while we are reading his or her story. He wants us to get suspicious about the narrator's words, which can make the story more interesting. I can't really tell that the person is saying the truth or not, but most of the times, I can distinguish that is the narrator telling the truth or not. The language that the person use, the action he does, his appearance......all of them are useful on knowing whether the person is telling the truth.