" The narrator was first voiced by James LaCurto, but became a national sensation when radio veteran Frank Readick, Jr. assumed the role and gave it " a hauntingly sibilant quality that thrilled radio listeners.

Having killed the elephant, the narrator considers how he was glad it killed the " coolie " as that gave him full legal backing.

The con list was far longer and the narrator gave up his belief.

In explaining how the gods fashioned humans so that they would procreate, the narrator says that the gods gave humans lust, " Eros and Ananke working hand in hand ".

Thorton Wilder's Our Town gave Jones the idea of using a narrator, the staging of Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters provided the concept of having actors sit stage-side when not acting, and John Houseman's production of The Winter's Tale and Leonard Bernstein's Candide suggested the use of sun, moon, frozen action, and incidental music.

The producers of Big Brother gave him the job of narrator because they liked the way he said " Chickens ".< ref >

Fyodor Dostoyevsky mentions the poem in Notes from Underground when the narrator states, " I received countless millions and immediately gave them away for the benefit of humanity, at the same moment confessing before the crowd all my infamies, which, of course, were not mere infamies, but also contained within them a wealth of ' the lofty and the beautiful ' of something Manfred-like " ( Dostoyevsky, page 57.

The next day Mike returns to pick up the narrator, this time driving wildly, and the narrator realizes that Mike gave up drinking, not smoking, and that the crazy drive was the first time he rode with Mike while he was sober.

The second part of the book, with no narrator, deals with Karen's return to the world.

This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view ( including opinions, thoughts, and feelings ) only of the narrator, and no other characters.

Other stories may switch from one narrator to another, allowing the reader or audience to experience the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

It is told by a third person narrator who is very close to Esther Zepler's thoughts.

In his essay The Art of Fiction, and in prefaces to each volume of The New York Edition, James explained his views of the art of fiction, emphasising the importance to him of realist portrayals of character as seen through the eyes and thoughts of an embodied narrator.

And for literature ... " while an interior monologue always presents a character's thoughts ‘ directly ’, without the apparent intervention of a summarizing and selecting narrator, it does not necessarily mingle them with impressions and perceptions, nor does it necessarily violate the norms of grammar, or logic-but the stream ‐ of ‐ consciousness technique also does one or both of these things.

During the family breakfast, the narrator notes that both sisters are thinking the same thoughts.

In a work with third-person limited point of view, the narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character.

An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub (" bugger all " backwards ).

The narrator presents to the audience or the implied readers the actions, and perhaps thoughts, of the characters.

Taking drugs and drinking while he drives, the narrator ’ s thoughts focus on his childhood.

In Stendhal ’ s time, prose novels included dialogue and omniscient narrator descriptions ; his great contribution to literary technique was describing the psychologies ( feelings, thoughts, inner monologues ) of the characters, and as a result he is considered the creator of the psychological novel.

An example would be the use of the narrator in Arrested Development to sum up the revelations and inner thoughts of characters in order to keep the viewer tuned to the plot.

Oftentimes, the first-person narrative is used as a way to directly convey the deeply internal, otherwise unspoken thoughts of the narrator.

Frequently, the narrator's story revolves around him -/ herself as the protagonist and allows this protagonist / narrator character's inner thoughts to be conveyed openly to the audience, even if not to any of the other characters.

The first-person narrator is always a character within his / her own story ( whether the protagonist or not ) and this viewpoint character takes actions, makes judgments and has opinions and biases, therefore, not always allowing the audience to be able to comprehend some of the other character's thoughts, feelings, or understandings as much as this one character.

The narrator can be the protagonist ( e. g., Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels ), someone very close to him who is privy to his thoughts and actions ( Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes ), or an ancillary character who has little to do with the action of the story ( such as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby ).

A rare form of first person is the first person omniscient, in which the narrator is a character in the story, but also knows the thoughts and feelings of all the other characters.

Second-person narrative mode is often paired with the first-person narrative mode in which the narrator makes emotional comparisons between the thoughts, actions, and feelings of " you " versus " I ".

The third-person subjective is when the narrator conveys the thoughts, feelings, opinions, etc.

The focal character, protagonist, antagonist, or some other character's thoughts are revealed through the narrator.

The third-person objective employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings ; instead it gives an objective, unbiased point of view.

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.

The students and narrator communicate with Yendred by typing on the keyboard, and Yendred describes how he " feels " their thoughts in his head.

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 ".

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:

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

It was a partnership between Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

Interspersed between songs were Guthrie's philosophical writings read by a narrator.

In Cat's Eye, the narrator recognizes the similarity between a turkey and a baby.

The narrator experiences a perverse conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember.

He is particularly known to British audiences as the story-telling narrator in The Wombles, a children's programme which ran for 40 episodes between 1973 and 1975.

In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called " El Pachuco ," in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the World War II-era rioting in California brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police.

A system of terminology developed to codify the standing of each narrator, with some variation in usage of terms between the individual evaluators.

* Jugement du roy de Behainge (" Judgement of the King of Bohemia ") ( before 1346 ) – The narrator hears a debate between a lady ( whose lover is dead ) and a knight ( betrayed by his lady ); in order to proclaim one or the other the most unhappy, the narrator seeks out the advice of the King of Bohemia who consults allegories, and the unhappy knight is declared the winner.

The opening is an in-progress conversation between the narrator and another person who is not identified in any way.

The relationship between the old man and the narrator is ambiguous.

In 1999, author Douglas A. Martin published a novel, Outline of My Lover, in which the narrator has a six-year romantic relationship with the unnamed lead singer of a successful Athens, Georgia-based, rock band ; the book was widely speculated, and later confirmed by its author, to have been a roman à clef based on a real relationship between Martin and Stipe.

The dialogue between the narrator Adso and the old priest Ubertino, tell us the story of Fra Dolcino, leaving much to the imagination of the reader.

Langland's narrator receives his first vision while sleeping in the Malvern Hills ( between Herefordshire and Worcestershire ), which suggests some level of attachment to the area.

“ Once the professed interrelationship between the first-person narrator, the death-camp story he narrates, and historical reality are proved palpably false, what was a masterpiece becomes kitsch ” ( Maechler, 2000, p. 281 ).

Sensei lives as a recluse, interacting only with his wife and the narrator, and occasional unseen visitors, but still maintaining a distance between himself and them.

Many commentators have noted the similarity between the narrator and the younger Sensei.

Nominally, Martín Fierro is a first-person narrator, but the distance between his voice and that of Hernández varies at different points in the poem.

He is the main narrator of the story, and his short exits and introductions are often the only transition between stories.

The narrator wrote a manuscript about his relationship with Alice and the fights between Mexicans and Oakies in his home town.

The poem may be divided into three parts: an introduction, a dialog between the two main characters in which the Pearl instructs the narrator, and a description of the New Jerusalem with the narrator's awakening.