Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 2, 7, University of Siegen, course: Narrative and Identity, language: English, abstract: The content of this work (take-away exam) deals with the features of narratives and identity and furthermore with the structures of unreliability/reliability. Peter Raggatt`s theory of the "dialogical self" and narrative and identity is explained and applied to Benjamin Zephaniah`s work "Face". Additionally Ita Daly`s "The Lady with the red shoes" is discussed on the basis of the concepts of (un)reliability.