First-Person Narration In Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

In every novel each narrator has a unique way of them expressing the story in different ways. The author of Flowers For Algernon is Daniel Keyes and the narrator is the protagonist of the book, named Charlie Gordon. Charlie is a 32-year-old mentally disabled man who went through a surgical procedure to increase his intelligence. Toward the end of the book, Charlie’s intelligence started to vanish and he spends all his time with Alice, until he returns to his original state which then he resides in the Warren state home. The author of The Book Thief is Markus Zusak and the narrator is death. The Book Thief is a novel about the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who lives with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the town of Molching. Hans agrees to hide a Jew named Max Vandenburg in his basement. Liesel writes the story of her life in the Hubermanns basement, where she survives an air raid that kills everyone else on her block. The narrator of a novel is significant because of he, she, or it takes on the responsibility of shaping the story for the reader.

Daniel Keyes, uses a first-person narrative point of view. The style of the narrative

Changing the narrator would give me a whole different opinion because without the background information that Death gives us we wouldn't know any of the events that are giving an effect on the characters. In Flowers For Algernon, Charlie did not affect my feelings towards characters because Charlie was not all accurate to depict the actions and attitudes of character which makes him an unreliable narrator. I think changing the narrator would change my opinion because if we had a reliable narrator we would have had an accurate insight of other