How Fiction Works....Part 2

A novel should ask the right questions. It does not necessarily have to give the answers.....

First Person: an unreliable narrator who knows less about himself than the reader eventually does. The novel teaches us how to read its narrator.

Dramatic Irony: to see through a characters eyes while being encouraged to see more than the character can see.

Fictional Narration: Do the words these characters use seem the words they might use or do they sound more like the authors?