Narrator and point of view

The novel Running Wild by J.G. Ballard is told by a first-person narrator who is also the main character. At the beginning, he appears biased. His bias comes from his belief that the children could not have murdered their parents unless they were mistreated. His bias is also influenced by lack of information at the beginning of the investigation. As a result, at the beginning the narrator interprets the existing evidence wrong. 

The narrator’s bias leads to several assumptions, some of which are proven later to be untrue. For instance, during the first ac...