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* ' The narrator ' is a writer named John, also known as Jonah, who describes the events in the book with humorous and sarcastic detail.
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The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.
This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.
and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.
The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
Although Camus's approach in the book is severe, his narrator emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, and irrationality of life is inevitable.
Rieux reveals that he is the narrator of the chronicle and that he tried to present an objective view of the events.
* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.
This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator so there is no one for Poirot to mislead.
Again, Poirot is not reliable as a narrator of his personal history and there is no evidence that Christie sketched it out in any depth.
Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.
The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.
* He is the narrator of the 2006 documentary Quilombo Country, directed by Leonard Abrams.
Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:
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* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.
It was a partnership between Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).
The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy ; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's.
The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).
On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.
* Uncle Clarence ( writer, narrator ), 1985
* The Lady in the Van ( writer, narrator ), 1990
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges named the main character and narrator of his short story " The Immortal " Joseph Cartaphilus ( in the story he was a Roman military tribune who gained immortality after drinking from a magical river and dies in the 1920s ).
Introduced as a mysterious radio narrator by David Chrisman, William Sweets, and Harry Engman Charlot for Street and Smith Publications, The Shadow was developed fully and transformed into a pop culture icon by pulp writer Walter B. Gibson.
*( 1980 ) Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian as writer and narrator
* Jean Shepherd ( 1921 – 99 ), writer and narrator of the popular holiday film, A Christmas Story
* A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow ( Helen Borten, writer / producer / narrator ; 28 January 1994 )
If the writer's intention is to get inside the world of a character, then it is a good choice, although a third-person limited narrator is an alternative that does not require the writer to reveal all that a first-person character would know.
A Night of Serious Drinking ( 1938 ) is an allegorical novel by the French surrealist writer René Daumal detailing what is ostensibly an extremely simple plot in which the narrator overly imbibes alcohol ; what unfolds however is a novel which explores the extremities of heaven and hell.
* 1978-Reproduction Cycle Among Unicellular Life Forms Under the Rocks of Mars ( Director, writer, & narrator )
Gabriel James Byrne ( born 12 May 1950 ) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator.
The 19th century writer Edgar Allan Poe would often write tales in which the narrator and protagonist would suffer some form of monomania, becoming excessively fixated on an idea, an urge, an object, or a person, often to the point of mental and / or physical destruction.
Its narrator is an aspiring writer who himself makes a similar transition at a personal level only to feel he has lost everything.
Arthur – narrator, writer, of the Etching Grangers, an old family of aristocrats .</ br >
At one point, the teacher called the narrator to his office to encourage him to leave school if he wants to be a writer.
He was the writer and narrator of the 1990 PBS documentary L. A. is It with John Gregory Dunne, in which he guided viewers through the cultural landscape of Los Angeles.
and in Daredevil ( 2005 ), Brian Michael Bendis, the writer himself, made a cameo as narrator.
He is the object of the loathing of the narrator in the postmodern book Démolir Nisard, by the French writer Eric Chevillard.
Though privy to many of the thoughts and feelings of the protagonists, the narrator is a self-proclaimed writer ; he discusses his own mannerisms and personal perceptions so often in the novel that he becomes a character.
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In Diablo III, a travelling scholar named " Abd al-Hazir " functions as the narrator for many of the game's features.
Heinlein reveals near the end of Starship Troopers that the novel's protagonist and narrator, Johnny Rico, the formerly disaffected scion of a wealthy family, is Filipino, actually named " Juancita Rico " and speaks Tagalog in addition to English.
In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe.
Evidence for this narrator being different from the earlier novels come from Deighton himself, who is quoted as saying that the narrator of Spy Story is not the same character as the narrator of The IPCRESS File ; in fact, for most of Spy Story, the narrator is named and addressed as " Patrick Armstrong "-although, as another character says, " We have so many different names.
The " menace " of the title is a beautiful woman tourist who visits the Moon colony and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a 15-year-old girl and aspiring starship designer who is the first person narrator of the story.
At the opening of the book, the narrator, an everyman named John ( a. k. a. Jonah ), describes a time when he was planning to write a book about what important Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed.
The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton.
Another problem is that naming people was considered rude in Heian court society, so none of the characters are named within the work ; instead, the narrator refers to men often by their rank or their station in life, and to women often by the color of their clothing, or by the words used at a meeting, or by the rank of a prominent male relative.
The narrator of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is named Adso of Melk.
The main narrator of the poem in all the versions is named Will, with allegorical resonances clearly intended, and Langland ( or Longland ) is thought to be indicated as a surname through apparent puns ; e. g., at one point the narrator remarks: " I have lyved in londe ... my name is longe wille " ( B. XV. 152 ).
The novel's narrator claims that John Shade's father had a waxwing named for him, Bombycilla Shadei, and in noting the name corrects the taxonomical error: '( this should be shadei, of course )'.
The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.
The author, Ernest Raymond, named his narrator Rupert Ray in a thinly disguised reference to himself.
Set in Thailand, the novel is told from the point of view of a fictional narrator named Mischa Berlinski.
As is evident and as critics such as Francisco Soto have pointed out, the " child narrator " in " Celestino ", Fortunato of " The Palace ...", Hector of " Farewell ..", and the triply named " Gabriel / Reinaldo / Gloomy Skunk " character in " Color " appear to live progressive stages of a continuous life story that is also linked to Arenas's own.
No specific aspects of the Champion are named in this song, but the narrator is aware of what he is, a trait belonging only to Erekosë.
A number of critics, such as Harold Bloom, have named a younger Stephen as the narrator of the first three stories in Dubliners.
Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.
After a brief tale of Sir Launcelot of Camelot and his role in slaying two giants from the third-person narrative, the man named Hank Morgan enters and, after being given whiskey by the narrator, he is persuaded to reveal more of his story.
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