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83-418: Pratchett does not provide an extensive backstory for von Lipwig, born in the town of Lipwig in Überwald , where he lost his parents at an early age. In Going Postal, he is described as being bullied at school, and running away to become a traveling conman. Being an unreliable narrator , the reader is unsure of whether parts of his backstory are true, for example, he is unclear on his age and his living through

166-412: A "brilliant scalawag of a hero". Unreliable narrator In literature , film , and other such arts , an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators , arguments have been made for

249-572: A "dear little pixie" would help her career and she thinks that Agnes might be that pixie. Roland de Chumsfanleigh — pronounced 'de Chuffley', which, as Pratchett says, is not his fault — is the son of the Baron of the Chalkland. First introduced in 30th Discworld novel , The Wee Free Men , the first novel in the Tiffany Aching series. Initially a rather dull-witted individual, he gained something of

332-495: A barbarian hero but is very bad at it. Mrs Cosmopilite is a dressmaker, who first appears in 10th Discworld novel , Moving Pictures as Vice President of Costuming and Theda Withel 's landlady. Earlier in the book she is mentioned as being capable of believing the Disc is under threat from inhuman monsters, that she is a subject of derision for believing that the world is round, and that three dwarfs look in on her undressing. She

415-408: A character, with clues to the character's unreliability. A more dramatic use of the device delays the revelation until near the story's end. In some cases, the reader discovers that in the foregoing narrative, the narrator had concealed or greatly misrepresented vital pieces of information. Such a twist ending forces readers to reconsider their point of view and experience of the story. In some cases

498-724: A conscience upon being rescued from the Queen of the Elves by Tiffany. When he is 12 years old, Roland is kidnapped by the Queen, and does not age during his captivity since time hardly passes while in Fairyland. When a 9-year-old Tiffany finds him there in The Wee Free Men , a year has passed on the Disc since his disappearance, and so he would have been 13 in the "real" world. Roland personally apologised to Tiffany when his father made out that he had in fact rescued her , as would be expected in such

581-558: A false panelled hidden door, a passage behind a tapestry and a trap door in his floor. He has also been hoarding food, and rescuing much of the castle's silverware and paintings. In Wintersmith , Roland was reluctantly recruited by the Nac Mac Feegle to perform the role of the mythic Hero in the Dance of the Seasons, to put right the damage Tiffany had caused by interfering in the dance and

664-434: A food named after him as famous military men did was eventually fulfilled when a fingerless glove is given his name. A major by the end of the book, he contrasts with Jackrum directly. In one scene, he misdirects enemy forces with a signaling device Jackrum would simply have smashed, a sign of Discworld warfare changing as intelligence and technology began to replace bravery and fighting skill. Brutha — pronounced brother —

747-749: A good-natured if somewhat pampered aristocrat. While Tiffany is at first bitter about this, she eventually comes to terms with the situation and ultimately marries the couple herself. Ghenghiz Cohen , known as Cohen the Barbarian, is a hero in the classical sense, i.e., a professional thief, brawler and ravisher of women. Cohen is introduced in the second Discworld novel , The Light Fantastic , with significant returns in Interesting Times and then with his last appearance in The Last Hero . His name and character are an obvious echo of Robert E. Howard 's Conan

830-587: A hundred years, while also rewriting all the lost books from the Great Library of Ephebe burnt to ashes in the failed invasion, which he had saved by remembering each and every scroll . This course of events, in good part, is guided by little 'nudges' by the History Monk Lu-Tze . The Canting Crew is an informal name for a group of Ankh-Morpork beggars who are too anarchic for the Beggars' Guild, which has

913-431: A list of the top ten Discworld characters by The Daily Telegraph in 2013; Tim Martin states that the character "gives Pratchett the opportunity for some of his finest satiric stabs at modern culture". In a review of Making Money for The Guardian , Patrick Ness describes von Lipwig as "a fresh new character" written "to poke serious fun at City institutions". Jim Shanahan, in a chapter on Pratchett's works, describes

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996-480: A man who does what Cohen does and nevertheless survives to such an age must be very good at it indeed. Cohen does not know his exact age. In The Light Fantastic , he says he is 87 and in later books guesses that he is between 90 and 95. A skinny old man with a long white beard that reaches below his loincloth and with a patch over one eye, Cohen's distinguishing feature is his smile, showing off his dentures made of troll teeth which are pure diamond. Cohen has outlived

1079-456: A model of five criteria ('integrating mechanisms') which determine if a narrator is unreliable. Instead of relying on the device of the implied author and a text-centered analysis of unreliable narration, Ansgar Nünning gives evidence that narrative unreliability can be reconceptualized in the context of frame theory and of readers' cognitive strategies. ... to determine a narrator's unreliability one need not rely merely on intuitive judgments. It

1162-468: A much better understanding of the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite than the monks who followed; he wrote down many of her sayings as guides by which to live his life. Most have double meanings, serving as both stereotypical utterances of a grouchy older working-class woman, and equally stereotypical pieces of oriental wisdom. The most notable is perhaps "I wasn't born yesterday" which, as Lu Tze points out, resembles one of

1245-496: A number of signs that constitute or at least hint at a narrator's unreliability. Nünning has suggested to divide these signals into three broad categories. Adora Belle Dearheart This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series. This list consists of human characters. For biographies of noted members of the Discworld's "ethnic minorities" (dwarfs, trolls, undead, etc.), see

1328-550: A one-eyed tortoise in the soft soil of his melon patch who is actually the God Om afflicted with temporary amnesia, which recedes in the presence of Brutha. Brutha is the only true believer of Om — as all other 'believers' only go along with the state religion either out of habit or fear of torture, but do not really believe — thus leaving the Great God with almost no godly powers what-so-ever, as shown by his intention of returning in

1411-583: A red nose. Mr Bent resided in Mrs Cake's Boarding House. This has likely changed since marrying a 'Miss Drapes' at the Fool's Guild Chapel of Fun by Reverend Brother "Whacko" Whopply, in a 'whitewash wedding'. He is possibly inspired in part by John Major who was born the son of a music hall performer, but left to join a bank, eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK 1990–1997. Andrew Rawnsley said that he "ran away from

1494-400: A review of Going Postal for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , describes von Lipwig as "the anti-Vimes; he's not a man who believes, and hates believing in a world that gives him so little purchase; he's a man who doesn't believe. In anything./ Which is part of what makes the book so satisfying". Kirkus Reviews , in a review of Making Money , describes von Lipwig as

1577-510: A sign saying "For sum muny I wont follo yu hom". The Duck Man, the intellectual of the group, appears to be relatively sane. He seems unaware of the duck on his head and has little memory of life before he joined the Canting Crew and calls it "when I was someone else". Possibly once rich and well educated at some time, he wears the tattered remnants of an expensive suit. As a boy, he "messed around in boats". Somebody apparently wants him dead, as

1660-458: A silver necklace in the image of the giant white horse that is carved into the Chalk; Tiffany uses the necklace as a symbol to draw on the power of her homeland in times of crisis. By the fourth book in the series, I Shall Wear Midnight , Roland and Tiffany have realised that simply being different from those around them does not mean they are similar, and Roland decides to marry Letitia Keepsake ,

1743-500: A story. Tiffany was nonplussed, and claimed she needed no apology or recompense so long as he ruled justly when he became Baron. Roland's father eventually fell very ill, and his two scheming aunts used their new position as his guardians to rob his family blind. Roland fought back as far as he could, in the process learning a great deal about surviving sieges and the art of insurgency. When his aunts block up his bedroom door to stop him from leaving, he muses that he has only been left with

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1826-476: A tendency to constrain them with rules. Members of the group can often be found beneath Ankh-Morpork's Misbegot Bridge and are normally accompanied by the talking dog Gaspode. Death joins the crew in the 16th Discworld novel , Soul Music where he takes the name, Mr Scrub . Death is successful at taking coin and enhancing the group's earning power where he also becomes known as the Grateful Death. In

1909-512: A vicious but honourable warrior clan called the D'regs . He speaks with a heavy accent and chews cloves. After an attempt on the prince's life, he is suspected of killing the Watch's prime suspect, provoking Vimes and other Watch members to pursue him back to Klatch. He got his nickname by killing a man (guilty of poisoning a well) one hour before the traditional D'reg three days of hospitality, during which even great enemies should be shown respect. He

1992-418: Is a beneficiary of the fact that star quality is far rarer than talent. The 'Phantom' in the story accidentally tutors Agnes instead of Christine when Christine runs away from the ghostly voice emanating from her mirror. Agnes realizes what is happening and, in order to continue her training for a second night, slips some herbs into Christine's hot milk to make her sleepy. Christine's father once told her that

2075-522: Is a mass of many personalities, none of them named Andrews. Most have considerably higher social status than him; these include Jossi, Lady Hermione, Little Sidney, Mr Viddle, Curly, the Judge, and Tinker. An eighth personality simply known as Burke , was only seen once by the canting crew (though not in any narrative) and they had no desire to ever see him again. The other seven personalities are very careful to keep him buried. The Duck Man speculates that Andrews

2158-568: Is an Ommnian novice at the Citadel in the city of Kom in the 13th Discworld novel , Small Gods . Omnia is an absolute autocratic theocracy that believes in the Great and only One God, Om . Brutha is a faithful and dutiful lad — his devotion instilled from infancy by being raised by his very strict and pious grandmother — who is word-perfect on Omnian religious texts on account of his eidetic memory , but wholly unable to read or write. He finds

2241-505: Is briefly mentioned in Witches Abroad as being venerated by some younger Ramtops monks who, on the basis that wisdom seems wiser if it comes from further away, trek down to Ankh-Morpork to hear her wisdom. This is usually "bugger off" or something similar, but since the monks do not speak Morporkian, it does not matter much. In Thief of Time it turns out that this was started by Lu-Tze , who spent some time lodging with her, and has

2324-422: Is correct about the inhuman monsters and the dwarfs (although she is never told about the first one and the second is "only by coincidence"). She is noted as having (appropriate to her name) what would be seen as a contemporary view of the world. Theda claims Mrs. Cosmopilite would not mind Victor Tugelbend coming with her up to her room—assuming they would be going up for sex, but they had a different reason. She

2407-508: Is described as sounding 'almost solid'. Like Ron, he has a verse in Where's My Cow? , as adapted by Vimes to fit city life. In it, Henry goes "Cough, gack, ptui". While Ron asks people for money to stop following them, Coffin Henry makes money by not going anywhere. People send him small sums to not turn up at their parties asking people to look at his interesting collection of skin diseases. He also wears

2490-548: Is later revealed to be the wali of Klatch, equivalent to Vimes's position as Commander of the City Watch. Educated at the Assassins' Guild, his clove-chewing habit and broken Morporkian were meant to act as a disguise. He confounds Vimes by his fond memories of Ankh-Morpork, even Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler . He and Vimes eventually develop a wary respect for each other as basically honest cops in unenviable positions. Mr Mavolio Bent

2573-409: Is neither the reader's intuitions nor the implied author's norms and values that provide the clue to a narrator's unreliability, but a broad range of definable signals. These include both textual data and the reader's preexisting conceptual knowledge of the world. In sum whether a narrator is called unreliable or not does not depend on the distance between the norms and values of the narrator and those of

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2656-519: Is suggested that Moist secretly, and without authorization, used Ankh-Morpork's Umian golems (brought to the city in Making Money ) to somehow convey a train over the ravine. While everyone else involved with the journey are given honours and medals, Moist's reward is being allowed to continue living. Moist von Lipwig meets and begins courting Adora Belle Dearheart in Going Postal . By Making Money ,

2739-537: Is the Head Cashier and all but in charge of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork. He was introduced to the discworld series in the 36th Discworld novel , Making Money . He has been in employment at the bank since he was thirteen, when he came to the city with a group of travelling accountants. He was born as a clown (Charlie Benito), but his first time performing was severely affected by the audience laughing at him. He fled

2822-418: Is the most common kind of unreliable narration. Riggan provides the following definitions and examples to illustrate his classifications: It remains a matter of debate whether and how a non-first-person narrator can be unreliable, though the deliberate restriction of information to the audience can provide instances of unreliable narrative , even if not necessarily of an unreliable narrator . For example, in

2905-463: The 25th Discworld novel , the crew are all recruited by William de Worde as editor of the Ankh-Morpork Times to become street vendors of the newspaper, where they capitalised on the unintelligibility to sell copies. Excessively seedy, momentously dirty, overpoweringly smelly and entirely incomprehensible, Foul Ole Ron is the best-known member of the crew. He is often accompanied by Gaspode,

2988-419: The articles for those races. Some character biographies are also listed in articles relating to the organisations they belong to. For further Discworld character biographies, see the table below . Characters are listed alphabetically by name. A Klatchian warrior who accompanies Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the 21st Discworld novel , Jingo , Ahmed belongs to

3071-551: The Barbarian and Genghis Khan , and of the common Jewish surname Cohen . The man who introduced the world to the concept of "wholesale" destruction, Cohen is the Discworld 's greatest warrior hero, renowned for rescuing maidens, destroying the mad high priests of dark cults, looting ancient ruins, and so on. He first appears in the series as an old man already, but still tough enough to handle anything. His opponents often underestimate him because of his age, then realize too late that

3154-457: The Barbarian and a temple dancer, introduced in the fifth Discworld novel , , Sourcery . Described as both beautiful and a skilled fighter due to attributes inherited from both parents, she nonetheless aspired to be a hairdresser despite her talents as a barbarian hero. By the end of Sourcery , she had fallen in love with Nijel the Destroyer , a humorously juxtaposed character who wants to be

3237-465: The Duck Man. He carries an old boot on a stick, so muggers desperate enough to try to rob the beggars often find themselves being kicked on the top of the head by a man 3 feet tall. Carcer is the murderous villain of 29th Discworld novel , Night Watch , described by Vimes as "a stone-cold killer. With brains", Carcer's full name, given in a preview of Night Watch as Carcer Dun, is never revealed in

3320-733: The Emperor' fully means it. This led to the deaths of several guards and courtiers in the Agatean Empire. In Interesting Times Cohen became Emperor of the Agatean Empire , having conquered it with his allies, the Silver Horde. They initially intended this as a sort of retirement plan, but became bored and abandoned the Empire in The Last Hero , in which Cohen decides to express his displeasure with

3403-526: The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork arranged to have Lipwig survive his hanging. When Lipwig woke up, Vetinari offered him a job as Ankh-Morpork's Postmaster General which Lipwig could take or reject of his own free will (the alternative being, essentially, death, again of his own free will). At that time, the city's postal service had long since ceased operation, the remaining two employees doing useless things punctiliously every day. The task of restoring it had claimed

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3486-577: The Post Office" (probably referring to Stanley, the Head of Stamps Dept, who's known to have been raised by peas). He also mentions the cabbage stamp with the potentially explosive cabbage scented glue, of which Corporal Nobbs has stolen the Watch's confiscated examples. In Making Money , Moist is very respectable and is up for many rewards and seats due to his efforts. He also breaks into his own office just to keep things interesting. The Patrician offers Moist

3569-676: The Royal Ankh-Morpork Post Office and the Royal Mint and Bank, Adora Belle runs the Clacks and has made it an equal opportunities employer, also hiring golems and Goblins . In the Sky TV adaptation of Going Postal , von Lipwig was portrayed by actor Richard Coyle . Coyle is also set to narrate the Moist von Lipwig series of Discworld novels, adapted by Audible. The character was included in

3652-610: The Sto Plains, and later Quirm. Following a palace coup against the Low King of the Dwarves, Rhys Rhysson, Moist is required to fulfil the logistically difficult task of constructing a railway line to Schmaltzberg. Despite Moist's own protestations regarding the impossibility of the task, he nevertheless succeeds and the Low King is restored to power with little resistance. At the Wilinus Pass, it

3735-451: The additional job of running the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Royal Mint just behind it. He refuses this offer. Vetinari does not force him to take the job as he did in Going Postal , because he knows that Moist will eventually accept. Moist denies this despite Vetinari's accusations that he is bored of working at the post office. However, the chairwoman of the bank leaves all her shares to her dog Mr. Fusspot when she dies (thereby making

3818-756: The beginning of Making Money , the Clacks network is run by the Ankh-Morpork Postal Service. Moist, and the Post Office, has a very minor cameo in Thud! . Commander Vimes notices that the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has issued two different sets of stamps commemorating the Battle of Koom Valley , one in which the Dwarfs are winning the battle, the other the Trolls, and he makes an angry remark about "that pea-brain at

3901-531: The board of directors. At the end of the novel, it was suggested that Moist would be appointed to the position of Chief Tax Collector. In Raising Steam , steam locomotives are invented and plans are made by Lord Vetinari and the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway Company to construct railway lines ultimately to as far away as Genua. Moist is first tasked with negotiating the purchase or acquisition of lands needed for railway construction, first throughout

3984-476: The breakup of the unholy empire. He is also described as having no notable physical traits, and so characters forget him easily. Descriptions of his height, appearance and age vary between different characters in the novel, which he uses to his advantage, by wearing disguises such as fake glasses and ear hair wigs . Before his eventual capture, he uses a variety of different aliases, and becomes an expert forger of handwriting. In Going Postal , Lord Vetinari ,

4067-404: The character as a "reformed con-man" who "drives technological change". Amy Lea Clemons, in a chapter on Discworld, describes von Lipwig as a "complicating character"; she comments on his use of language to deceive his audience and states that the character presents a contrast with the "more rigid ethical rhetorics" of Granny Weatherwax , Sam Vimes and Carrot Ironfoundersson . Michelle West , in

4150-625: The circus to join a troupe of accountants". Polly Perks's platoon commander in 31st Discworld novel , Monstrous Regiment , Blouse is a rather effeminate aristocrat who previously worked as an administrator in the Quartermaster-General's Blanket, Bedding, and Horse Fodder Department, with no previous experience of field command. He was transferred as a result of Borogravia's ever-decreasing supply of combat-ready men. His remarkable talent for mathematics and technology , allowed him to give William de Worde several options for improving

4233-554: The clacks system, despite never before having encountered the 'Abomination Unto Nuggan'. Despite his rather feminine manner and distinct lack of martial prowess he is one of the few genuinely male characters, and respectfully admires the women when he learns their true sex, citing examples of female warriors in the history of the Klatchian continent; he informed their captors that "[he] would not trade them for any six men [they] offered [him]". Blouse's ambition to have an item of clothing or

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4316-401: The completed book. His first name is a Latin word meaning "prison". Carcer has a talent for unnerving people, an annoying laugh (written as 'haha' in the book) and a perpetual conviction of his own innocence despite his many crimes, which include at least two murders. He claims his original crime was stealing a loaf of bread although, Vimes says, Carcer would have murdered the baker and stolen

4399-419: The device of unreliability can best be considered along a spectrum of fallibility that begins with trustworthiness and ends with unreliability. This model allows for all shades of grey in between the poles of trustworthiness and unreliability. It is consequently up to each individual reader to determine the credibility of a narrator in a fictional text. Whichever definition of unreliability one follows, there are

4482-483: The dog the new chair of the bank), and leaves the dog to Moist. The Assassin's Guild is alerted to the situation and contracted to kill Moist should he refuse the job or should Mr. Fusspot be killed. Therefore, he becomes responsible for the bank. Moist becomes the Master of the Royal Mint, introduces paper money to Ankh-Morpork, and revolutionizes the bank, while keeping it out of the hands of the greedy Lavish family who sit on

4565-592: The end of every sentence. She is an extraordinarily untalented singer, but the Opera House management favours her because of her beauty and because the financing her father provided for the purchase of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. She lip-synchs onstage to the voice of Agnes Nitt , otherwise known as Perdita X. Nitt. Christine is friendly and kind, but not particularly bright and can be unintentionally slighting. She rarely pays attention to anyone but herself and

4648-437: The existence of unreliable second- and third-person narrators , especially within the context of film and television, but sometimes also in literature. The term “unreliable narrator” was coined by Wayne C. Booth in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction . James Phelan expands on Booth’s concept by offering the term “bonding unreliability” to describe situations in which the unreliable narration ultimately serves to approach

4731-609: The form of a great ground-crushing bull or something similar, rather than a small and decrepit reptile. He comes to the attention of the Deacon Vorbis , the chief exquistor in charge of the Quisition , who sees the possibilities that Brutha offers him and his self-serving agenda of taking over the whole of Omnia and its surrounding countries of Klatch on the Circle Sea . After the failed Omnian invasion of Ephebe that results in

4814-541: The heroic age and finds himself in a world where great battles and astonishing rescues rarely happen except in stories. Ironic, given that Discworld runs on narrative . One of the rare Discworld short stories, " Troll Bridge ", tells of Cohen setting out to slay a troll, but ending up reminiscing with it about the good old days when everyone respected tradition. As a barbarian hero, he has great difficulty interpreting empty bravado. A man of his word, he assumes that anyone who says something such as'I would rather die than betray

4897-717: The implied author but between the distance that separates the narrator's view of the world from the reader's world-model and standards of normality. Unreliable narration in this view becomes purely a reader's strategy of making sense of a text, i.e., of reconciling discrepancies in the narrator's account (c.f. signals of unreliable narration ). Nünning thus effectively eliminates the reliance on value judgments and moral codes which are always tainted by personal outlook and taste. Greta Olson recently debated both Nünning's and Booth's models, revealing discrepancies in their respective views. Booth's text-immanent model of narrator unreliability has been criticized by Ansgar Nünning for disregarding

4980-435: The issues of truth in fiction, bringing forward four types of audience who serve as receptors of any given literary work: Rabinowitz suggests that "In the proper reading of a novel, then, events which are portrayed must be treated as both 'true' and 'untrue' at the same time. Although there are many ways to understand this duality, I propose to analyze the four audiences which it generates." Similarly, Tamar Yacobi has proposed

5063-502: The lives of four of Vetinari's clerks, and the competing and mercilessly corporate Clacks network, the Grand Trunk Clacks Company, was being run by a conman, Reacher Gilt . Lipwig nonetheless manages to revive the postal service by applying the principles of the con to honest work, introduces the postage stamp and causes the downfall of the Grand Trunk Clacks Company by exposing the fraudulent practices introduced by Gilt. By

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5146-634: The mobilisation of the armed forces of all the other countries along the Klatchian coast against Omnia to crush the country once and for all; Brutha resolved the conflict and became the Cenobiarch, (the theocractic leader) of Omnia, along with being the Eighth Prophet and Prophet of Prophets of Omnianism. Reforming the Church extensively along tolerant, humanist lines as a constitutional religion, he governed for

5229-538: The modern world by "returning fire to the gods, with interest". After a rather unsuccessful attempt, he and his friends escape on horses belonging to the Valkyries and ride into the sky, to explore space. Cohen has quite a lot of children; in The Last Hero he casually mentions that he has dozens. Only one is mentioned by name in the novels, Conina in Sourcery . She wishes to be a hairdresser, but genetics keep getting in

5312-439: The narrative audience – that is, one whose statements are untrue not by the standards of the real world or of the authorial audience but by the standards of his own narrative audience. ... In other words, all fictional narrators are false in that they are imitations. But some are imitations who tell the truth, some of people who lie. Rabinowitz's main focus is the status of fictional discourse in opposition to factuality. He debates

5395-450: The narrative, such as norms and ethics, which must necessarily be tainted by personal opinion. He consequently modified the approach to unreliable narration. There are unreliable narrators (c.f. Booth). An unreliable narrator however, is not simply a narrator who 'does not tell the truth' – what fictional narrator ever tells the literal truth? Rather an unreliable narrator is one who tells lies, conceals information, misjudges with respect to

5478-420: The narrator to the work’s envisioned audience, creating a bonding communication between the implied author and this “authorial audience.” Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immediately evident. For instance, a story may open with the narrator making a plainly false or delusional claim or admitting to being severely mentally ill, or the story itself may have a frame in which the narrator appears as

5561-414: The narrator's unreliability is never fully revealed but only hinted at, leaving readers to wonder how much the narrator should be trusted and how the story should be interpreted. ==Classification== :)))) Attempts have been made at a classification of unreliable narrators. William Riggan analysed in a 1981 study four discernible types of unreliable narrators, focusing on the first-person narrator as this

5644-492: The popularity of the goddess Anoia. In Making Money , he takes up praying to her, on the basis that she owes him for her newfound popularity. In " Raising Steam ", it is revealed that Moist and Adora Belle have since married and now live in a mansion on Scoone Avenue, in Ankh (the same area where the Duke and Duchess of Ankh, Sam and Sybil Vimes , live). While Moist continues to run both

5727-404: The price on his head at The Assassins' Guild is $ 132,000. but there's a chance he put that contract on himself. The Duck Man appears in several of Pratchett's books, including Hogfather , Soul Music , The Truth and Feet of Clay . A member noted for being completely legless. Literally; a cart ran over his legs several years ago and he now gets around on a wheelbarrow, usually pushed by

5810-515: The proper roles of the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady. Against all expectations, he acquitted himself admirably. There are signs that his feelings for Tiffany extend somewhat beyond gratitude. He also gave Tiffany a box of watercolors , one of which was turquoise , allegedly very expensive on the Discworld . When Tiffany went to Lancre to study witchcraft in A Hat Full of Sky , Roland gave her

5893-534: The ranks of the Unmentionables, Homicidal Lord Winder's secret police, until he is brought back to the present by Vimes after pursuing him with a death squad under the orders of the new Patrician, Lord Snapcase. Carcer is captured by Vimes at the end of Night Watch and likely sentenced to death. Christine is a pretty, thin, blonde chorus singer at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, in the 18th Discworld novel , Maskerade who wears white and uses exclamation marks at

5976-715: The reader's role in the perception of reliability and for relying on the insufficiently defined concept of the implied author. Nünning updates Booth's work with a cognitive theory of unreliability that rests on the reader's values and her sense that a discrepancy exists between the narrator's statements and perceptions and other information given by the text. and offers "an update of Booth's model by making his implicit differentiation between fallible and untrustworthy narrators explicit". Olson then argues "that these two types of narrators elicit different responses in readers and are best described using scales for fallibility and untrustworthiness." She proffers that all fictional texts that employ

6059-451: The show, and he happened upon a group of travelling accountants, and discovered his talent for numbers. From then on, he renounced his clowning heritage, and went to work at the bank. Mr Bent eventually accepts his clown heritage after having a mental breakdown because (among other things) he made his first mathematical mistake. It appears that he remains at the bank though, in an attempt to honour his clown heritage, he returns to work wearing

6142-519: The three interweaving plays of Alan Ayckbourn 's The Norman Conquests , each confines the action to one of three locations during the course of a weekend. Kathleen Wall argues that in The Remains of the Day , for the "unreliability" of the main character (Mr Stevens) as a narrator to work, we need to believe that he describes events reliably, while interpreting them in an unreliable way. Wayne C. Booth

6225-448: The two are engaged. Dearheart plays an important role in Lipwig's life, in that dating her provides him with the dangerous thrill he needs in his life. When she is away, he needs to perform various dangerous activities, such as climbing high buildings and extreme sneezing. Lipwig is not a follower of a particular god. However, a con he perpetrated in Going Postal led to a massive increase in

6308-418: The way, causing her to instinctively kill people who threaten her. She was last seen in an amorous relationship with Nijel the Destroyer . She says she knew Cohen and that he took an interest in her education—such as how to set a variety of traps in a length of corridor. In The Light Fantastic , Cohen helps the other two protagonists, Rincewind and Twoflower, to save a seventeen-year-old girl named Bethan, who

6391-523: The whole bakery. Commander Vimes chases him along the rooftops of Unseen University in a magical thunderstorm, and both Carcer and Vimes are transported thirty years into the past, about a week before the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May. After murdering Pseudopolitan watchman John Keel (forcing Vimes to assume that identity and role as mentor to his younger self), Carcer climbs through

6474-399: The world's only thinking-brain dog (as opposed to a ' seeing-eye dog '). Ron's smell has become strong enough to not only melt earwax but to acquire a separate existence. It is referred to in the text as almost another character entirely, who occasionally arrives ahead of Ron, opts to stick around for a while after his departure. His ' catchphrase ', "Buggrit, millennium hand an' shrimp...",

6557-542: Was among the first critics to formulate a reader-centered approach to unreliable narration and to distinguish between a reliable and unreliable narrator on the grounds of whether the narrator's speech violates or conforms with general norms and values. He writes, "I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say the implied author 's norms), unreliable when he does not." Peter J. Rabinowitz criticized Booth's definition for relying too much on facts external to

6640-410: Was broadcast on Easter Sunday and Monday of 2008. In the miniseries, Bethan and Cohen show up at the docks, already married, to bid Twoflower goodbye as he heads back home. Twoflower gives them a box of Agatean money as a wedding present, which he believes to be inconsequential but which, Rincewind comments out of earshot of Twoflower, was enough to buy a small kingdom. Conina is the daughter of Cohen

6723-568: Was once a mild-mannered psychic, mentally overwhelmed by the other souls. He is generally regarded as one of the most consistently sane of the group, Since at least five of his personalities can hold a sensible conversation with other people. His personalities 'voted' on whether to act as street vendors for The Ankh Morpork Times (in The Truth ) and Andrews held up five fingers to indicate the outcome of his personalities' decision. Sometimes spelt 'Coughin' Henry'. He habitual cough gave him his name and

6806-526: Was the result of Pratchett feeding a random text generating program with a Chinese takeaway menu and the lyrics to They Might Be Giants 's song Particle Man . His catchphrase (minus 'buggrit') is also used by Mrs Tachyon, a character in the Johnny Maxwell series, also by Pratchett. Foul Ole Ron is in one verse of Sam Vimes's 'City Version' of " Where's My Cow? ". Young Sam enjoyed it, but Lady Sybil Vimes disapproved of this version. Altogether Andrews

6889-554: Was to be offered as a sacrifice. Cohen and Bethan fall in love, mainly owing to Bethan's patience and skill at curing Cohen's back problems, and decide to get married, despite Rincewind's apprehensions about their age difference. At the end of the book they are not present, and it is assumed that they have left for their marriage. Actor David Bradley played Cohen in the 2008 The Colour of Magic miniseries. The miniseries, produced by The Mob Film Company and Sky One combined both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic , and

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