These are totally valid thoughts in the moment, but also totally wrong. Maybe I'm to blame for everything" (34.4). Mom says how much she loved riding with Dad, and Leigh thinks, "Maybe if I hadn't been born, Mom might still be riding with Dad. But that's only because he doesn't always know what's true in the moment. However, since this is from a young boy's perspective who's writing as he experiences everything (versus writing what happened a long time ago), he's reliable but not always truthful. So when he says other people are doing such-and-such or that they look like this or that, we believe him. The adults don't call him a liar, and he doesn't tell us one thing here and change his story over there. Leigh never shows the reader that he's an unreliable narrator. The only time we get another point of view is when Leigh quotes what someone else says. Henshaw is made up entirely of letters or diary entries written by Leigh, which means that everything is from Leigh's perspective.
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