The Art of Racing in the Rain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both have unreliable narrators. From the beginning of both books, the narrators come off as unreliable. Huck starts The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by saying, “I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another” (Twain 1), showing the reader that he, too, has lied. Enzo, from The Art of Racing in the Rain, also starts off his narration with questionable reliance from the reader. Enzo calls himself “melodramatic” (Stein 1), which also makes puts the reader on edge. These characters are not unreliable on purpose, but because they are too innocent, inexperienced, and they trust too easily to provide information that is completely true.
Huck is an innocent boy who is not very educated because of his lack of proper schooling or experience. His innocence …show more content…
Not only are Enzo and Huck themselves unreliable, but their sources/models are also untrustworthy. Though Enzo gets most of his information from Denny, he also gets a lot of his knowledge from the television. Enzo is very trustful of this source as he says, “I learned that from a program on the ‘National Geographic Channel’, so I believe it is true” (Stein 98). Enzo spends a good amount of his time watching television and his inexperience of the corruption that surrounds the media keeps Enzo’s trust intact. As for Huck, he is surrounded by men who have used trickery to get to the position they are now in. Huck mainly follows a runaway slave and two con-artists while on his journey through the Mississippi and these people have a negative effect on young Huck. Not only are his companions liars, but so is his best friend, Tom Sawyer who lies to experience more fun. It is uncovered by Huck that Tom had been withholding information from him for quite a while, so the reader is not sure how much of what time has told Huck is
Huck is an innocent boy who is not very educated because of his lack of proper schooling or experience. His innocence …show more content…
Not only are Enzo and Huck themselves unreliable, but their sources/models are also untrustworthy. Though Enzo gets most of his information from Denny, he also gets a lot of his knowledge from the television. Enzo is very trustful of this source as he says, “I learned that from a program on the ‘National Geographic Channel’, so I believe it is true” (Stein 98). Enzo spends a good amount of his time watching television and his inexperience of the corruption that surrounds the media keeps Enzo’s trust intact. As for Huck, he is surrounded by men who have used trickery to get to the position they are now in. Huck mainly follows a runaway slave and two con-artists while on his journey through the Mississippi and these people have a negative effect on young Huck. Not only are his companions liars, but so is his best friend, Tom Sawyer who lies to experience more fun. It is uncovered by Huck that Tom had been withholding information from him for quite a while, so the reader is not sure how much of what time has told Huck is