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Thank you We sneak in Speak perspective i'll ashman From

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what perspective is the narration being presented This is a

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first person narrative but it's also not like a perfectly

00:20

continuous narrative Melinda tells the story through flashbacks The story

00:27

is kind of broken up and we also know that

00:31

it's from her sort of biased perspective because of the

00:33

way she talks about other characters So referring to andy

00:38

has it for so long and you could question linda's

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trustworthiness as a narrator because of that But what's important

00:48

here is that questioning her a little bit doesn't mean

00:52

questioning her entirely She's not lying to us she's just

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someone who has experienced something from attic and still recovering

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for it from it So her sort of shakiness is

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more an indication of how the events in her life

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have affected her than a sign that we shouldn't believe

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her From what perspective is the narration being presented I 00:01:26.439 --> [endTime] can't

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