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Quartermain As The First-Person Narrator

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Quartermain’s attitude towards being the first person narrator is as though he did not have the right to write the story. He keeps saying,”I am not a literary man”, and says, “ it is not my line.” Qurtermain feels as if Captain Good, and Captain Curtis should both write part of the story. Quatermain realizes if it wasn’t for Captain Good and Captain Curtis he would have never made it alive and that is he doesn’t feel fully entitled to write the whole story through his eyes. However, he writes the story because Captain Good and Captain Curtis are asking him to, and he has some personal intention such as a boy named Harry who is studying to be a doctor, to give him something to read to keep him out of mischief and trouble. Also, it is the fact
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