An Autobiography · Character
Narrator (I)
The remembering voice of the autobiography, who treats his boyhood self as a near-stranger and traces how that timid child became a fighter.
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Also known as Unknown, yourself, I—both, myself, your, I., mine
First appearance: an autobiography
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First-person perspective used throughout the chapter.
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This first-person narrator speaks of his younger self with curious detachment, as though the sickly boy were an ancestor rather than the same person. That boy, bullied on a stagecoach ride to Moosehead Lake, resolved to…
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