\u201cI\u2019m very idealist, but I knew I couldn\u2019t walk that far, so I took a cab\u201d (p.147). Although it is hard not to like Oskar and feel his pain for his extraordinary loss, it becomes extremely difficult that a\u00a0nine-year-old would talk like that. As we discussed in class, I think it is true that the author created a really \u201ccute\u201d book and a very likeable character despite the subject matter; however, for me it is not easy to buy the premise that a \u201cprecocious\u201d child would have that kind of language. There are many\u00a0instances of Oskar’s sophisticated talk, but somehow, I feel this term of “idealist” is a complicated one for kids including very smart and “precocious” kids.<\/p>\n
I think this book is either extremely likeable or just plain unbelievable. In other words, you either like it or not. Personally this book is like my paradox. I live in a conflict because I can\u2019t make up my mind. I don\u2019t know if I like it or not. One one\u00a0hand, I like the author\u2019s creativity and on the other hand it has a very unreliable narrator.<\/p>\n
\u00a0There are so many words, phrases and situations that would illustrate my point that Oskar is \u201ccute\u201d but a very unreliable narrator. To make sure I was reaching to the right conclusion, I asked some kids that look like “GEEKS”, what an idealist means. \u201cI never heard that term in my school or from my friends,\u201d\u00a0they said. Then, I look for instances in the book where Oskar would act like a normal kid. There are plenty of situations where Oskar acts like a normal kid, \u201cthe next morning I told Mom that I couldn\u2019t go to school, because I was too sick\u201d (p38). This certainly is a case of a kid who lies when he\/she does not want to school.<\/p>\n
Hence, the only thing that is clear about this book is that it has the potential to go both ways: either people love it or hate it. In my case it is more complicated because I don\u2019t know if I like it. But I can\u2019t say that I hate it either -especially feeling the pain of a young protagonist like Oskar who became a victim of extremism and hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019m very idealist, but I knew I couldn\u2019t walk that far, so I took a cab\u201d (p.147). Although it is hard not to like Oskar and feel his pain for his extraordinary loss, it becomes extremely difficult that a\u00a0nine-year-old would talk like that. As we discussed in class, I think it is true that the… Continue reading A very UNRELIABLE narrator.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}