This Boys Life UNRELIABLE NARRATOR

Question 1

5 points

Answer 1

Memory
Omissions 
Retrospective
Storyteller
Embellished

Question 2

Memory

Answer 2

Wolff would be unable to remember exactly what happened.

Question 3

Omissions

Answer 3

Wolff would have omitted events he found too confronting or shameful.

Question 4

Retrospective

Answer 4

Wolff is looking back on his childhood as an adult creating a new perspective on the events. This could be judgemental and self critical.

Question 5

Storyteller

Answer 5

Wolff would have formed the events in a way that made an interesting story.

Question 6

Embellished

Answer 6

Wolff may have subconsciously embellished events.

Question 7

2 unreliable narrator quotes

Answer 7

Grotesque
Anger
Sharp

Question 8

Grotesque quote

Answer 8

Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque had power over me. This much I understand now.

Question 9

Anger quote and meaning

Answer 9

I hear his voice in my own when I speak to my children in anger.

The hurts don’t stop, and carry over into Jack’s own family: probably a lot more stable than Dwight’s, but with a few of those barbs thrown in.

Question 10

Sharp

Answer 10

Arthur and I had fallen into a sharp way of talking to each other.