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Originally Posted by Catlady
[...] Why is she an "inherently unreliable" narrator?
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One of the difficulties that first person narration presents to a writer is that a participant in the story cannot be omniscient. They only see what they can see, or what someone else chooses to tell them. This limits how much the writer can tell the reader, because it has to be something the first person narrator can conceivably know or be told. In the case of clones I fully expect there are details that no one from the outside world will tell them, so Kathy's knowledge is inherently limited and quite probably incomplete and/or unreliable.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
[...]Nothing to deny it, and nothing to support it. NONE of this is in the novel. Is there even a throwaway line about serving humanity? About this group of children having a special calling? About them being trained for a noble undertaking? About them being hailed as heroes after they die? That kind of Kool-Aid could have a powerful effect on children but the author says nothing about it.
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You highlighted the "nothing to deny" but ignored my "On the contrary" where I give examples that seem - in my mind - clear support that these clones believe their roles are important. I would add to all that, the obvious pride that Kathy has in her extended time as a carer, this is clear in the early paragraphs of the book.