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In 'The Shadow Lines', how does Amitav Ghosh use multiple perspectives and selective memory to shape the reader's understanding of events?
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- 1By rejecting personal memory altogether in favor of official historical documentation.
- 2By focusing solely on the narrator's eyewitness experiences to ensure historical accuracy and coherence.
- 3By employing an omniscient narrator who provides an objective, linear account of historical and personal events.
- 4By presenting fragmented recollections and differing viewpoints, Ghosh exposes the instability of memory and questions the narrator's reliability in reconstructing the past.✓
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By presenting fragmented recollections and differing viewpoints, Ghosh exposes the instability of memory and questions the narrator's reliability in reconstructing the past.
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