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Key Examples in The Testaments
Epilogue: The Thirteenth Symposium
Explanation and Analysis—Youth:
In the following excerpt from the epilogue, the speaking historian betrays himself as an unreliable narrator:
“Nicole” might seem too young, in years but also in experience, to have been assigned to the hazardous mission the two of them appear to have carried out so successfully, but she was no younger than many involved in resistance operations and spywork over the course of the centuries. Some historians have even argued that persons of that age are especially suitable for such escapades, as the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and
are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.
