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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by narrators without [Man giving a speech]

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them this video would have started like this.....

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thrilling someone call the Academy.... okay let's check out our question of the

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hour.. true or false..the author and narrator are never the same person........ we'll give you

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a hint watch out for words that make you think this is the only way this can be [Boy stood by a road sign]

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we're looking at you never so let's think about this question people we've

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definitely read some books where the author and the narrator words different

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people you know the type where the narrator is clearly a fictional

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character that the author just made up like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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the narrator of that book is Huck Finn himself a carefree kid who gets into a [Huck Finn approaches a cat and cat hisses]

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bit of mischief.. The author on the other hand was Mark Twain a witty writer with

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a killer mustache definitely not the same person however no matter how many

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books we read where the author and the narrator are different people all we

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need to do is come up with one case where there the same person to prove that this

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statement is false and lucky for us that's an easy order take...Boy - tales of a [Roald Dahl sat by a book]

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childhood by Roald Dahl.. Dahl wrote this book about his own experiences as a kid

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and he's both the author and the narrator as long as we found one book

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where the author and the narrator are the same person we know the statement the

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author as a narrator are never the same person...[Boy looking at statement]

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is definitely false remember to be careful with statements containing never

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or always doesn't take much to blow them up oh no we've scared never and always

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come back guys we're just kidding - not really...[People laughing]

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