Originally, I’d done everything right: I studied the blinding, white-snow sky who stood at the window of the moving train. I can’t explain to you the severity of my self-disappointment. Death reveals he is not the central character in the passage:Īs for me, I had already made the most elementary of mistakes. This is the case in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, where the narrator is Death and the protagonist is a young girl, Liesel Meminger.
They might be a side character or even a main character, but they are not the main protagonist. Sometimes the character telling the story is not the protagonist. Other novels with reliable protagonist narrators are Alchemy of the Afterlife: A Memoir by Linda Kinnamon, Hounded by Kevin Hearne, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. These characters also tend to be likeable, so readers root for them to succeed. The reader believes everything the character says, something that should not be taken for granted. The biggest advantage to a reliable protagonist narrator is the instant trust granted by the reader. If they aren’t the main character, then they aren’t really writing a memoir instead, they are writing someone else’s biography. If they don’t come across as reliable, then they will be seen as a liar in all aspects of their life and story. When someone writes a memoir or autobiography, this is the narrative stance they are expected to take. In this type of first person point of view, the narrator is the protagonist. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into two halves: Before and After (8).įrom this passage, the reader knows Jacob will be telling them his story of change.
I had just begun to accept the fact that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Jacob tells the reader: This is the kind of narrator most first person pieces use and most readers think of – a trustworthy character telling their own story.
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