Teaching Eighth graders. Anyone have recommendations for short stories with EVIL unreliable narrators. I already have some ideas for Poe. Anything perhaps a bit more modern? We are studying villains; we're at the point of view part of the course.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroid is nearly 100 years more modern and probably at the right reading level though there is a mention of suicide
Mid 20th C, but maybe Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever. Although perhaps whether or not the narrator is EVIL, is a point to discuss. He’s certainly unreliable.
Here is a list: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ELATeachers/comments/7pjg7b/short_stories_with_unreliable_narrators/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ELATeachers/comments/7pjg7b/short_stories_with_unreliable_narrators/)
I found ballad of songbirds and snakes to be this way. Snow’s internal monologue was him justifying all the bad shit he did