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Thread: Crayons = Unreliable Narration?

  1. 2010-02-21, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #6
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    Default Re: Crayons = Unreliable Narration?

    Quote Originally Posted by ScottishDragon View Post
    This is jirix's memory,he might have forgotten some things,so they are not drawn.
    Why would he forget things that happened before he died, about a week ago?

    I think Jirix is deliberately lying when he says it was more than one elven wizard, so as to not let anyone know that just one wizard did all that damage. And he is leaving out any mention of the phylactery because it is secret.

    What I find interesting is that we, the readers, are seeing the same scene with the phylactery missing. Even though we know for a fact that it was there.

    It's as if the author is telling us that what we see in crayon pictures is not always the truth, by showing us an exact panel we've seen before but with one crucial change.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaarsuvius4181 View Post
    No, jirix was killed when an elven wizard, which shows that he probably assumed multiple wizards were attacking, and that is what he recalls, not an unknown narrator.
    Not what he recalls. What he says he recalls. Huge difference.
    Last edited by SPoD; 2010-02-21 at 07:14 PM.
    Congratulations, you can link to TV Tropes. This does not mean you have special insight into the storytelling process, much less the author's mind. Stories don't need to fit into neat boxes, you know.
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