Chief Narrator Analysis

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Part One: The effectiveness of the Chief as the narrator is that we get to know everything about everyone. Everyone thinks the Chief is dumb and deaf so they say things about each other that they wouldn't usually say if they knew someone was listening. We almost get a 3rd person point of view when the chief is listening to people talk because we get to know everything everyone is thinking and doing. We also learn things about the nurses and black boys and what they do at night because Chief listens to them talk. One big problem is that the Chief has post traumatic stress disorder and lives in a fog, thus making him an unreliable narrator. The machines symbol the machines that were trying to commercialize his families land. He makes control