Before winter break as a class we did an exercise to test the validity of a narrator. We were given several scenarios and were asked to decide whether we could trust what the narrator was telling us. The purpose of the exercise was to prepare us for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So far in our reading the most unreliable character in the book has been Pap. As I was watching the news one morning before school I saw an interview(not the exact interview I watched, but a similar one) with Richard Heene, that father of Falcon Heene, more commonly known as Balloon Boy.
In this interview Heene claims that the he did not put his sin in a balloon in order to get attention from the media, that in was in fact not a hoax. As I was watching the interview the entire time I did not believe a word that was coming out of his mouth. Instances such as this led me to believe he was a very unreliable narrator:
"Sum and substance, you believed your son was
in the craft?" King asked.
"I knew he was in the craft when I ..." Heene began
"Well, you didn't know it, of course," King said.
"No, no, no. In my mind," Heene said.
"In my mind. There was no other place,
'cause I visualized him. I yelled at him to -- to not go in."
Even from this brief moment in the interview, a moment where he mistakenly contradicts himself, the narrator's validity becomes less. Needless to say, I still believe that this man orchestrated the hoax and do not feel his argument is true.
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