In the story “what you pawn I will reedem” by Sherman Alexi, the author tells the story in the first person and organizes it by stating what happens at every hour of the day because he wants the reader to relate to him. He wants the reader to connect to what he is saying. When he tries to get the money to buy his grandmother’s regelia and everything that he goes through such as getting so drunk that he ends up sleeping in a railroad is heartfelt. Even if every time he has the money he uses it to buy food we feel bad for him as a homeless man and we understand that he has to eat. However when he writes right at the beginning of the story that he has a mental illness and that he is not sure what it is exactly the reader already suspects that he is making up the story. And other little details like both he’s first and last name are Jackson and when he writes at least I think so after saying something  and even when he’s having a conversation with the Aleut cousin who have been waiting on a bench for their boats for eleven years and finally decide to go back by walking on the sea shows the reader that story is false. It feels more lite a tale. The narrator is not reliable because of the language and the minor details that he decides to use in the story.