Mark Twain's book, "Tom Sawyer" is told from the "omniscient" point of view.( "Omni-" means "all," as in "omnivore" (eats everything). "-scient" means "knowing," as in "scientist.") This is the most common way novels are written. Tom is called "Tom." Near the end of the book, the boys find money:
"It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip.
"Got it at last!” said Huck, ploughing among the tarnished coins with his hand. “My, but we’re rich, Tom!”
Mark Twain's, "Huckleberry Finn," is told using "first person narration." It is written as if Huckleberry Finn is speaking to us. The fictional character "Huckleberry Finn" is "I." The reader is "you." The book opens:
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich."
In a book with first-person narration, it is as if somebody is talking to us. In real life, when somebody is talking to us, we usually expect them to be telling us the truth. However, they can only tell us about things they have seen themselves, and what they tell us is colored by their feelings and emotions.
In the case of an "unreliable narrator," the storyteller is not telling the truth. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Telltale Heart," the "I" is someone criminally insane. We believe the narrator kills the old man. We do not believe that the old man really had "the Evil Eye." We do not believe that his heart beat so loudly that the neighbors might hear it, or that it went on beating after his death.
"Narrator" means "storyteller." The narrator is the person telling the story. A story can be a "narration." Sometimes, a movie will have a narrator. The narrator is a voice we hear on the soundtrack. The narrator is not a character in the story. We do not see him. The narrator's voice may say things like "Our story opens in 1848, in the tiny settlement of Sutter's Mill, California."
"Reliable" is an adjective for something you can trust. "The train is reliable. You can depend on it. It arrives at 8:23 every day, on the dot."
"Unreliable" of course means the opposite. "The train service is unreliable. The 8:23 is usually late. Sometimes it doesn't come at all."
google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=what+is+the+meaning+of+unreliable+narrator&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">what is the meaning of unreliable narrator</a>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. ... Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immediately evident.
“1unreliable 2narrator “
1shaky, or erratic, unsteady, wobbly, patchy, having little trust
2storyteller
so, 1 & 2 = storyteller who tells an unsteady story.
