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Most of the books you've read are written either in the first person (narrated from the perspective of one of the characters, who is referred to as "I" and "me") or in the third-person (referring to all characters by name or with pronouns referring to other people, like "he" and "she"). Occasionally, though, you run across something written in the second-person, where the subject of the narration is you. You'll note that second-person narration is very rare. On one hand, like first-person narration, it has a very intimate feeling. On the other hand, while the intimacy of first-person narration is that of storytelling, the intimacy of second-person narration is that of telepathy: the book is telling you what you experience and how you experience it, which often includes directly telling you what you're thinking or feeling. You may find this rather presumptuous when a work is telling you what your own thoughts are, especially if you happen to vehemently disagree with the narration, which is one reason why you see second-person works so infrequently. You'll often find it used in conjunction with a Featureless Protagonist. Both serve the same function: they attempt to identify you with the protagonist. For much the same reason, you'll also often find it keeping close company with Present Tense Narrative, to reinforce the impression that this isn't just happening to you, but it's happening to you right now. If you look hard enough, you will discover indications that the second-person narrator is not supposed to be you the reader. You will likely want to ask why the author of such a work would dare try to make you identify that intimately with a second-person narrator who is, um, not you. But you'll probably never ask the question aloud because the person you want to ask isn't there. How can you speak your piece when you have no one to tell it to? Talking to yourself would make you look crazy, so you'll just have to leave it an internal monologue for now. You've frequently seen second-person narration in Choose Your Own Adventure novels, Tabletop RPGs, as well as Interactive Fiction games — so frequently, in fact, that you shouldn't feel any need to list specific examples from these genres in this page. You can even make a convincing argument that all Video Games where you play a personified main character are narrated in second-person. In fact, now that you think about it, some examples are specifically trying to evoke the feeling of these media in you. You will almost never find second-person narration in works older than these. You will also find second-person narration in a few literary novels, especially ones written outside America. Special note on music examples: just because a song uses second person pronouns (you, your, yours, yourself) a lot does not make the song Second Person Narration. It's only Second Person Narration if the "you" refers to the character who is singing, not the character who is being sung to. If the song also has first-person pronouns—even many fewer than second person pronouns—it's almost certainly not Second Person Narration. ("You're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you" is not Second Person Narration; "I" is the person singing, and "you" is the person being sung to.) Imperative sentences—commands—directed at "you" are also a sign that it's probably not Second Person Narration. ("Eat your peas," is not Second-Person Narration, but "You eat your peas" might be.) The same is true of questions directed at "you"—if the singer is asking questions of "you," in most cases that means the singer is not "you" and the song is not Second Person Narration. (Unless "you" are just talking to "yourself" in which case it might be.) Sibling trope of First-Person Perspective. |
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Harrow the Ninth is written in an intimate second person about Harrow, though the Flashback B-Plot is written in traditional third person. The unusual narration seems to reflect Harrow's fragile mental state and prolonged Heroic BSoD. At least, that's what we're led to believe for the majority of the book. The second-person point of view is actually narrated by Gideon's consciousness trapped inside Harrow. Even as her point of view becomes more and more first-person in Act 5, she continues to address Harrow as "you." | |
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Awful Hospital narrates the protagonist Fern's actions in second person, in part because they're being influenced by the mysterious mental presence that represents the comic's readers on the far side of the fourth wall. On a couple of occasions, Fern gets angry enough with the commentators to hijack the narrative and switch to first person for a while. | |
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A Champion in Earth-Bet is a Worm quest, reading from the perspective of the Mutants & Masterminds-styled character, the Avatar, placed into the Crapsack World of Earth-Bet to make it better. | |
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The first chapter of Circle of Flight is done like this, as Ellie comes home to find Gavin is missing. | |
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The Sentry: The 2000 and 2005 miniseries apparently use Second-Person Narration to represent the protagonist's internal monologue, which creates a claustrophobic effect: the Sentry is a character metaphorically and somewhat literally trapped in his own head. This is kind of weird when the perspective shifts to Reed Richards or the Hulk in the crossover issues, because it begins to feel like the author dictating to them the mental tongue baths they are giving the Sentry, but then becomes awesome again in The Sentry vs. the Void, which wraps up the 2000 miniseries, when it becomes apparent that the Sentry is supposed to be a Canon Sue: | |
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"Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads. "You may find yourself... living in a shotgun shack..." | |
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MS Paint Adventures, as a parody of the style of adventure games and gamebooks, uses this format. As do a large portion of its fanfics. Note that, save for Bard Quest, this is combined with Switching P.O.V., making it clear that "you" is not the reader. | |
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The narration sequences of It Could Happen Here are like this, discussing how your character manages to get by during the war. | |
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The entire Shin Megami Tensei franchise, wherein the main protagonist is the quintessential Blank Slate (and a Heroic Mime and Hello, [Insert Name Here], at that). You do get quoted dialogue options, but one chilling case involves the narration describing your Evil Laugh instead. | |
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The game Shadowgate is told entirely in this form. | |
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Etrian Odyssey: All mainline games in the series employ this type of narration, since the characters you play as are part of a guild you've built from scratch, including customization in name and class. The Story Mode of the first two games' respective remakes use the monologues or dialogues from the pre-built character guild, however. | |
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern has short, page-long portions in second person, which allow you to experience the circus "first hand." | |
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The Tomb of Dracula: The narrator summarizing the previous issue: "Your name is Frank Drake and you are having a bad day. Your girlfriend has just been killed, turned into a vampire, and you had to kill her again (or something like that). You have came to the bridge to commit suicide." | |
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If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino has a frame story (about "the Reader") as well as descriptions of the novels the Reader is reading. The Reader is referred to as "you"; the narrators of the internal novels are referred to as "I". Then there's an interesting section where the Other Reader (the love interest of the Reader) becomes the "you" for a brief while. | |
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Central gimmick of the Pseudopod episode "It's Easy to Make a Sandwich." It alternates between deep immersion and a narratorish, hectoring tone reminiscent of radio's The Whistler: | |
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The Broken Earth Trilogy has Essun written in the second person, both to distinguish her from other characters and to create a Sympathetic P.O.V. for a character whose actions and trauma are often unpleasant and unsympathetic. In the end the second person narrative is revealed to be a first person narrative by Hoa, educating a now amnesiac Essun about her past. | |
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The Neon Genesis Evangelion fic And If That Don't Work? has a scene with 2nd-person Gendo Ikari. | |
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The Memphis Belle: The narrator of this 1944 propaganda documentary about a B-17 bomber sometimes addresses the audience as "you", saying that you might have dozed off in high school but you will definitely be paying attention when the CO gives the briefing for the bombing raid. On other occasions, the narrator speaks of "we". The idea is obviously to make the viewers feel part of the mission and the war. | |
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Given that it's a Homestuck fanfic, Moirailegiance is Science is written this way. It's basically the Author Avatar telling the story to the reader, who flips POV frequently, even on a couple of occasions to the "Detached Third-Person Fourth-Wall Observer". | |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie tells "you" all about what will happen if "you," well, give a mouse a cookie. | |
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Roadwarden is told in second-person, allowing the main character to embody the person they play as and to slowly define their backstory as they journey across the peninsula. | |
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My Huntsman Academia places the reader in the shoes of Izuku Midoriya and allows readers to vote in on what happens next, with the story's course being constructed like a game of GURPS. | |
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Twilight Histories is told using this style of narration. | |
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The Persona 5 Continuation Fic Metamorphosis starts as a reader-insert, about an unnamed classmate who Akira befriends and eventually falls in love with after returning to his hometown at the end of the game. However, the story frequently cuts away from her perspective to show scenes she's not present for or wouldn't be able to understand even if she was (eg, Akira talking with Morgana), while still referring to her as "You" outside of dialogue. It also trips the reader up at some points by using "You" to refer to her Shadow. | |
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Undertale uses this for the normal narration. The narrator will even sass you if you do certain things. The narration will switch to first person in the No Mercy route, something that has caused a lot of argument and speculation over the narrator's identity. | |
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Shade, the Changing Man: Shade waking up the day after Kathy's death. | |
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Duncan from Dragon Age: Origins provides some opening narration and at the end of the game in this style. | |
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Silent Hill: Promise borrowed this format from MS Paint Adventures. | |
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House Made of Dawn, to help give some clarity with the extremely non-linear narrative, describes all of Abel's childhood in this fashion, though it's blatantly obvious the "you" is just Abel. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda games, with a few exceptions that can be written off as typos, the narration always refers to Link as "you", e.g. "You found ten rupees!". The instruction manuals for A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening are written entirely in second person. | |
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The Gintama shortfic Wafuku uses this. | |
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The Fallout series has this in spades during Ron Perlman's opening and ending narrations. | |
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RuneScape delivers a significant amount of its narrative through text messages in the chatbox that appears when you do a certain action, is affected by something, or when you examine something. A small amount of this text is first-person, but most of it is in second person. One classic example is the "You have been frozen!" message when you are hit by Ice Barrage spell, as demonstrated by Prezleek Comics here. | |
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A Shock to the System has this. | |
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The mission briefings in Command & Conquer are always presented as being spoken directly to the player by a variety of characters, such as a GDI Commanding Officer or the Big Bad Kane. | |
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1947 film noir Lady in the Lake starts with Philip Marlowe addressing the audience directly, saying stuff like "You'll meet the people, you'll find the clues...and maybe you'll solve it quick, and maybe you won't." This sets up the rest of the movie, which is almost entirely shot in P.O.V. Cam from Marlowe's perspective, with other characters looking at the camera and addressing Marlowe and the audience as "you". | |
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The Bribe: The first two-thirds of the film is an extended flashback in which Rigby addresses his own reflection in the mirror, as he berates himself for falling for Elizabeth's charms and neglecting his duty as a federal agent. He speaks to the reflection throughout his narration, saying that "you" sold out and "you" did this and that. | |
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Monster Prom: The game's Lemony Narrator refers to the current player character as "you" at all times. | |
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Planescape: Torment, much of which is dialogue and narration, tells the story this way. Like Baldur's Gate above, it's a Dungeons & Dragons game. | |
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"High on Your Own Supply" by Apollo 440: | |
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In The Stand, by Stephen King, Fran at one point muses about Harold's very unusual fiction writing style: second person, present tense. | |
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Austin Grossman's You is mostly written in first person from Russell's perspective, but when he's playing a game or the narrative is describing games and gaming, it dips into second-person. Since the book is partially about being a gamer, this makes sense. There's also a segment at the beginning that is directly written in Interactive Fiction format, commands and all. | |
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Used to very good effect by Matthew Stover in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith. While most of the book is written in third person, Stover breaks out the second person present-tense narration when he moves into an in-depth character study, which he always signals with the phrase "This is what it feels like to be X." | |
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Veniss Underground is divided into three parts, the second of which is told via second-person narration (the first via first-person and the third via third-person narration). The "you" in this case is Nicola, the first narrator's twin sister and the third narrator's ex-girlfriend. | |
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The epilogue to Bioshock 1 is like this. | |
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Fortuna takes the parody aspect of Homestuck's narration to a new extreme, being fully stylized as a video game. The characters are refered to by third-person pronouns and names, but the reader's actions are all second-person. It becomes even more accentuated when the v1 A.I.s (self-aware beings who know that they are trapped behind a screen on the reader's computer) begin to converse with the reader directly. | |
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The Crimson Petal and the White, where "you" is the reader as we're told where the characters are going, what they're thinking at the time, etc. This is often acknowledged by telling the reader to pay attention, hurry up so they don't miss something, and a moment early on when a character's daughter walks into the room and the narrative says, "all this time you were following him, you never would have thought he had a daughter." | |
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"Beebop-a-Reebop Rhubarb Pie" sketches on A Prairie Home Companion are always narrated in second person by Keillor. It makes sense because the sketches always lead up to the in-universe radio ad for Beebop-a-Reebop ("Nothing gets the taste of shame and humiliation out of your mouth like a piece of rhubarb pie!") | |
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The narration of Disco Elysium refers to the main character — a hard-boiled detective with amnesia — as if he's you. Not only that, but the various systems of this character's brain also speak to you as if you're that character. The detective does have an identity that you can find through the story, but you can choose to accept this identity, reject it, or carve your own. | |
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The fanfic series Falling Is Like Flying is almost entirely written in second person, but 'you' look through the eyes of an established character (in the main four stories, they are: Taichi, Homare, Kazunari and Kasumi). Considering that this series also contains Demonic Possession and And Then John Was a Zombie happening to this character sometimes, it is supposed to feel more chilling then when one were to look at it through the lens of a third person. | |
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"Tertinggalkan Waktu" by Peterpan completely lacks an "I" in its lyrics and instead narrates about a "you" ("kau") who have wasted their time. | |
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Several narrator sequences and in one case an entire episode ("A Story About You") of Welcome to Night Vale. | |
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In Acceptance, the third book of The Southern Reach Trilogy, the chapters dedicated to the director are written in the second person and present tense, with the director being the one adressed as "you". | |
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Common among My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fics, often for clopfics where "you" (in pony form or otherwise) romance/seduce/bang a character from the show. It has gotten to the point that a FIMFiction site-wide contest was held where writers had to use at least one of the "always bad" story tropes - second person perspective, alicorn OC, OC x major character romance, or human in Equestria - and make it into a good story, proving that a good writer can make anything work. |
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The song "Mineshaft 2" by rapper/singer Dessa. The chorus and first two verses are entirely in second person, with only the last verse switching to first person in a way that makes it clear the song is about Dessa herself. |
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A Visit from the Goon Squad, which shifts the perspective of the narration in every chapter, uses this for chapter 10. | |
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Toward A Bright Future is a My Hero Academia fic, with the reader as an Amnesiac Hero with future vision who becomes the teaching assistant to Class 1-A. | |
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Dragnet uses this in the opening narration: "You're a Detective Sergeant working out of Robbery Division..." | |
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The introduction to most episodes of The Twilight Zone is in the second-person; this, along with the hypnotic visuals (which include a floating eyeball, a swinging pendulum, and a hypnosis spiral) and the weird snake-charmer music, are intended to bring about a real or simulated hypnotic state in the viewer. "You are entering a dimension not only of sight and sound, but also of the mind..." | |
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The The Hunger Games fanfiction life a fact above all others gives a second-person narration to the enigmatic Foxface, allowing her to remain nameless, but by no means a Featureless Protagonist. | |
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Iron Maiden's "Killers" starts with a Second-Person Attack, before going into the killer's point of view. | |
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The first chapter of The Elric Saga is written in this manner, as a way of establishing the title character and his court. | |
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The Sandman (1989) fanfic "The Taste of Honey" uses this kind of narration to great effect too. | |
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Several stories — or the narration between the stories - in the Warrior Cats guidebooks are written this way. Occasionally it will be as if the reader is a cat interacting with the characters. Other times, it will be from one character speaking this way to another specific character that appears in the books. At times — notably the "so-and-so speaks" portions — the identity of the "you" isn't necessarily clear. | |
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In The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, "you" are Aliaa, a young woman searching through the eponymous Bazaar of the Bizarre for a self-proclaimed angel. Your goal is to strike a deal with this supernatural entity to save the life of your mortally wounded sister. | |
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The 1961 film Blast of Silence. | |
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Spider-Girl: The series does this, though it was dropped with the last relaunch. | |
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Iron Fist: The early stories from the 70s used second-person narration, starting each story with variations of "You are Iron Fist." This was started by creator Roy Thomas and continued with writers Len Wein and Tony,Isabella in the Marvel Premiere title and Chris Claremont in his own series. | |
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Warlords: Heroes uses this for its entire storyline, placing you in the minds of the characters themselves. | |
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Doom: The narrations at the end of each episode are in second person. | |
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In the Zork series, the player character is never given any sort of physical description, either by appearance or character interaction. The Hint System's painted lady in Zork Nemesis refers to the player as "Wanderer," and supplementary texts reveal that the Wanderer is a female pilgrim on some sort of religious journey. But what narration the games have refers to the goings-on of the plot as if they're happening to you, not the Wanderer. | |
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The first chapter of Winnie-The-Pooh uses a Framing Device in which A. A. Milne tells Christopher Robin a story about himself and Pooh, so in the story, Christopher Robin is constantly referred to as "you." This is only used for the first chapter, however, and the rest of the book uses conventional third-person narration. | |
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The chapter-opening narration in Baldur's Gate uses this, as do the dreams- not surprising, given the provenance of the game. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing, although it takes itself less than seriously. West of Loathing and Shadows Over Loathing are narrated in the same way. | |
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The narration of Within the Wires Season 1's Relaxation Cassettes addresses the Institute's patient as "you" and feigns impartiality as a purely instructional, pseudo-omniscient figure in those exercises that mimic a typical guided meditation, but as her instructions deviate to become peculiarly specific, she eventually drops the façade to refer to herself as "I" at the end of the first cassette, and addresses the patient with increasing directness in subsequent installments. | |
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The Last Sovereign: For much of the prologue, the game uses this along with present tense narration. This is despite Kai, the protagonist, being a total idiot and asshole. Once Kai dies and the perspective switches to Simon, the true protagonist, the narration also switches to third-person past tense. This was done stylistically to mimic the style of other lower quality H-games. | |
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Man-Thing: The series has this due to Man-Thing's limited understanding of human ways. | |
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A few chapters in Fight Club do this, in order to show that the narrator didn't live his life, but lived the life he was told to live. | |
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Brief Encounter is presented as Laura's confession of her affair to her husband who she refers to as "you" throughout the film. | |
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Yandere Heaven puts the (presumedly) female listener in various roles trapped between two Yandere love interests. | |
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