Meanings Behind Narrative

Narrative is a kind of rhetoric. The choice of different narrative strategies meansdifferent rhetorical intentions. This thesis mainly discusses Martin Amis’s Time’sArrow on its narrative rhetoric from three aspects of narrative time, narrative personand unreliable narrator.The thesis consists of five parts. Chapter One is a brief introduction to MartinAmis, Time’s Arrow, their current research situation, narratology, narrative as rhetoricand structure of the thesis. Chapter Two focuses on the analysis of narrative time. Ittries to explain how Amis plans the narrative time and its rhetoric by studyingtemporal order and frequency. Chapter Three discusses narrative person. It tries to findout the rhetorical significance of narrative person setting in the novel by analyzing thealteration between first-person and third-person. Chapter Four analyzes the unreliablenarrator and tries to dig out the profound implications behind. Chapter Five isConclusion, which makes a summary of this study and points out the shortcomings.Through the study, it is found out that the ingenious narrative displays Amis’sunique moral concerns. Amis, with the reasonable arrangement of narrative strategies,leads the reader to recognize the evil nature of the Holocaust and the Nazis, and furtherto make his or her own moral judgment that the Holocaust is morally wrong.Meanwhile, Amis conveys his critical attitude towards the Holocaust and the Nazis,and achieves his rhetorical purpose.