Dancing+on+the+Edge+rational

A Brief Explanation of Reality in __Dancing on the Edge.__ __Dancing on the Edge__ repeately forces the reader into a world they know does not seem to conform to the rules of the real world. We are frequently asked to believe we can talk to the dead, that a person can melt, that a baby can be born to from a dead woman, and the aruas exist and can be changed based on the colors you are wearing. Though it becomes gradually clear that these things don’t all conform to the reality of the book, it is not always immediately clear which of these miricles the book holds as true. The book does this not by having the narrator tell us lies, but by surrounding the narrator by charecters who hold things back, or truly believe them. This is the narrator is not unreliable just unable to state what the truth is because nobody tells her. It is not always clear, even by the end of the book, what the book holds as true. Is it possible to contact the dead? __Dancing on the Edge__ leaves me confused on that point, by having a Ouija board tell us that one of the main character was gone when no who is touching the Ouija board knows he is leaving. Is it possible for a baby to be born from a woman who has recently died? According to __Dancing on the Edge__?—yes. Can a human being melt without a trace of human remains? These are all things the narrator and almost everyone around her seems to believe, but don’t ring true. Some them turn out to be the books reality some of them do not. Why this book is good for students is it forces them to think critically about the relality of the book. It forces students to try to come up with explaintions for things that are not quite explained. But it does this without the typicle unreliable narrator. The main character tells us everything the way the events happen, but everyone else around her is coming to strange conclusion about the events, holding things the main character should know back or lying to her.