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The author has no control on this type of audience. He sets up several typical characteristics of his audience that includes a set of certain norms, beliefs and knowledge and composes the narration according to these characteristics.
He narrates the story to this type of audience who also possesses some certain knowledge of the narration. So it is not just being like the authorial audience whom the author sets up to having a common set of beliefs and norms, but the author makes his audience pretend to be part of the context, acknowledging certain perspectives of the narration that is being set.
Therefore, if the narration is historical, then the audience has a certain historical background about it and believes that the setting and the characters are real Rabinowitz It is then a combination of the authorial and narrative audience.
So, while the narrative audience may judge what the author comes up with, the ideal narrative audience accepts all that happens without judgement Ibid. Any susceptible marker may narrow the level of reliability, i.
A personal evaluation of the reliability of the narrator shall be introduced depending on the data presented, the preexisting knowledge of the world as well as the standards and the norms. These points shall classify and define the final evaluation of the narrator of the novel Frankenstein in Baghdad after a brief account on the novel is introduced. Military occupation and sectarian violence ruled the streets of Iraq and quickly mass murder became a daily regularity.
Visiting locations where horrendous explosions have once taken place, Hadi stumbles upon various shattered body parts of different humans. He decides to collect and sew parts together in an attempt to attain a full human body. All man is worthy of a burial even if only parts of him are left. It is not until Hadi finds the remaining body part, a nose, that the process of a full human body is completed. The belief that everybody deserves a proper burial, is the purpose of his act, especially after the losing his close friend and roommate Nahem Abdaki in a similar manner.
Too much of his surprise, never had Hadi expected his stitched-together creature to find the means of life. After meeting his fatal destiny in a suicide truck explosion earlier, the soul of Hasib Mohamed Jaafar, one of the guards at the Sadeer Novotel hotel, had found the opportunity of being a mortal again by merging with the corpse and becoming a full-fledged human being once more. As the narration escalates, Whatitsname is accused of a series of terrorist attacks and murders and is quickly depicted by the media as a serial killer.
Little do they know that he is in fact on a mission to avenge the owners of the body parts he is constructed of. With the continuation of his vendetta, he notices how a body part falls off every time he succeeds to take revenge. Fearing for his own life now, Whatitsname starts killing random people with the excuse that no human is fully innocent Garner The novel ends with Hadi being arrested after being allegedly accused of being the figure who roamed the streets killing people.
Evaluating the Reliability of the Narrator in Frankenstein in Baghdad The reliability of the narrator may be pointed out by reviewing several points: 3. They may be classified into the chief narrator and several other minor narrators. Throughout the narrative, several minor narrators appear to take the role of narrating inclusive scenes as well but from a more personal perspective.
Whether major or minor characters, their reliability must first be tested through the analysis of their personalities. On an initial note, it seems that this narrator has access to the spiritual world, capable of seeing where souls set off after leaving their physical beings: With his hand, which was made of primordial matter, he touched the pale, naked body and saw his spirit sink into it. His whole arm sank in, then his head and the rest of his body.
Witnessing the integration of a soul with a body, is relatively a deviation from realism and rather takes a turn into the world of magical realism. Having such privilege will naturally lead most readers to consider it as a factor of unreliability.
The chief narrator also shows factors of skepticism whenever quoting the character of Hadi the junk dealer. The statements the narrator delivers on behalf of this persona are thought of as unreliable at first especially with the continuous emphasis that Hadi is a well-known deceiver whenever narrating his story at his favorite cafe in Baghdad. This reputation has been his trademark of his stories and slowly all of his life actions.
What color was his skin? Did he have scars from bullet wounds or injuries that had been stitched up? Despite all accusations, it actually appears that the only true story Hadi had possibly told was the story of his creation; Whatitsname. It is Mahmoud Al-Sawadi who kept track of the details of this specific story that highlights this fact.
In addition, the narrator does also not specify any false statements related to this story, leaving the reader skeptical of whether to consider this story as a real one or not. The effects of lying is a damaging action as it leaves the public in constant doubt.
The label that is given to Hadi this time is not applicable to his story and contrarily opens the door to a first marker of unreliability of the chief narrator. The writer allegedly points out that deception is one of the main characteristics of mankind and that all, including himself, are deceivers.
With such a statement, the reader inevitably rethinks and question the reliability of this narrator and might even reconsider all that has been narrated before. Readers might therefore reread the text again, to evaluate and analyze the events of the novel from a new and total different perspective. On a scale of considering him a co-joined creature, the Whatitsname is inevitably unreliable. Aside from being the most unnatural of creations whose appearance and mannerisms differ from humans, he is a creation of a collection of different human beings whose essences are not quite known from when they were still alive.
It might have been the mind of a doubtful human being, like a madman, a professional liar, a criminal or any other probable unreliable personality. However, what is more to question is whether to whole narration is actually done by this monster. Many statements made by the chief narrator show that the Whatitsname is not seen by anyone but Hadi and Elishva who have both been considered as mad at some point in the narration.
In a scene, none of the neighbors in Al Bataween area was curious enough to visit Elishva, when she claimed that the Whatitsname was her long-lost son, Daniel. No neighbor in Al Bataween has seen Whatitsname and were just interested in seeing Elishva happy.
In both cases however, a marker of unreliability is promising one. It is a moment that makes readers think of several possibilities; first off that the narrator is unreliable wanting to convince the reader that Hadi and Whatsitname were two different people all along but they are in fact the same character. Second, Hadi had to bear a curse as punishment for creating such a being.
Third, Hadi was a madman and his creation had actually never found life. The chief narrator is therefore undeniably unreliable again. However, and as has been mentioned earlier, all his statements may be untrustworthy, especially after his remark that all people are deceivers. He for instance decides, after a lot of hesitation, to take away the life of an old man to replace his sightless eyes: Now blind, I took some cautious steps forward until my shoe hit something.
Bending down, I felt around for the warm body of the frightened old man. The bullet had hit him right in the skull. He had been expecting death to come from the upper floors of the buildings or from the ends of the streets in front of him, but it had come from behind Saadawi As he offers a sense of guilt of confession to admitting to such a crime, he quickly soothes his conscious with an excuse: The old man was a sacrificial lamb that the Lord had placed in my path.
So that was that. He had been going to die in a few minutes, or within half an hour at the most.
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