![]() As an example, Frank uses his bicycle to get into ‘town’, however, the reader knows that he lives on an island, so it is impossible to get anywhere near without using a boat. In class, we came to the conclusion that Frank is an unreliable narrator because the events that are happening in the story are sometimes very far from reality. ![]() The story is written in the first person narrative, therefore, told by Frank himself and the reader can never be fully sure if what is written there is the truth or a lie. He does not go to school but considers himself quite intelligent when covering his murders. He lives on an isolated island somewhere in Scotland with his dad and does not even exist according to society as he has never been registered. ![]() The main character Frank is some kind of a psychopath who murders people in his attempts to find his identity. In the very preface of the book he mentioned, “children probably harbour quite as many violent thoughts as adults, they just don’t usually possess a sophisticated moral framework within which to place them” (Banks, 1984). Iain Banks originally intended his work to show that children are not always as innocent and pure as they may be seen. The dark story continuously makes the reader think where reality ends and imagination begins. ![]() ![]() The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is one of the most insane and unpredictable novels one can ever read. ![]()
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