In Part Two, the author acknowledges the criticism of his digressions in Part One and promises to concentrate the narrative on the central characters ( although at one point he laments that his narrative muse has been constrained in this manner ).

One common feature of many RPGs is the role of gamemaster, a participant who has special duties to present the fictional setting, arbitrate the results of character actions, and maintain the narrative flow.

One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (" The Gnat "), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.

Early examples of the foreshadowing technique of repetitive designation, now known as " Chekhov's gun ", occur in the One Thousand and One Nights, which contains " repeated references to some character or object which appears insignificant when first mentioned but which reappears later to intrude suddenly in the narrative ".

One version, appearing in Tabarī's Tafsīr and attributed to Urwah ibn Zubayr ( d. 713 ), preserves the basic narrative but with no mention of satanic temptation.

One popular narrative holds that all of the Gaoshan tribes were originally Plains tribes, which fled to the mountains under pressure from Han encroachment.

Also, in the narrative, it says that Gandalf thought that Sauron was quite capable of bringing all of Middle-earth under his sway even without the One Ring, perhaps explaining at least in part Gandalf's opposition to throwing the One Ring into the Sea at the Council of Elrond.

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

Other non-supernatural novels, such as The One Safe Place ( 1995 ), use a highly charged thriller narrative to examine social problems such as the deprivation and abuse of children.

One difficulty is that the narrative of Joshua appears to place the valley of Achor to the north of Jericho, between Jericho and Ai ; but Joshua makes the valley part of the boundary between the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, to the south of Jericho, but not as far south as El-Buqei ' a.

An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, loosely connected, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz, and stream-of-consciousness narrative, such as Astral Weeks and lesser-known works such as Veedon Fleece and Common One.

One of Eliade's earliest fiction writings, the controversial first-person narrative Isabel şi apele diavolului, focused on the figure of a young and brilliant academic, whose self-declared fear is that of " being common ".

One thing to note is that the Qur ' anic account of the annunciation of Isaac's birth differs sharply from the Biblical narrative, which states that three angels all came in human form to Abraham's household and ate.

The most important prayer in Judaism, that forms part of the Scriptural narrative to Moses, says " Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

One theory is that of Theodore Adorno, who has suggested that ‘ music recites itself, is its own context, narrates without narrative ’.

One explanation ( that goes back to Eusebius of Caesarea in the fourth century ) is that John wrote his gospel not to overlap with the synoptic gospels, but to supplement it, and hence did not include all of their narrative.

One of his well-known poems, " The Gualeguay ", is a narrative of both the landscape and historical and economic events that occurred on the banks of one of the rivers in the province.

One of the defining characteristic features of Francesco's style is the manipulation and development of short melodic motifs within a " narrative " formal outline.

What is typically forgotten in narrative histories of hip-hop as in the history of this film were the appearances of pioneering artists like Sha-Rock who was a member of Enjoy recording group The Funky Four Plus One More, later known as Funky 4 + 1.

One slave narrative was composed by an Englishman, John R. Jewitt, who had been taken alive when his ship was captured in 1802 ; his memoir provides a detailed look at life as a slave, and asserts that a large number were held.

Its language is plain, but " every sentence feels weighted and deliberate, every episode carefully chosen and delineated ... One has the sense of merciless experience mercilessly distilled to its essence ..." She writes that the power of the narrative has come at the cost of literal truth.

An earlier text, Baile Chuinn Cétchathaigh ( The Ecstatic Vision of Conn of the Hundred Battles ") gives a poetic list of kings, many of which are recognisable from the traditional List of High Kings of Ireland, but without narrative context.

As a historian his works include a substantial narrative history of the Hundred Years ' War, so far in three volumes.

Sumption's narrative history of The Hundred Years War between England and France ( of which three volumes have so far been published 1990 – 2009 ) has been widely praised as ' earning a place alongside Sir Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades according to Frederic Raphael, and as a work that ' deploys an enormous variety of documentary material ... and interprets it with imaginative and intelligent sympathy ' and is ' elegantly written ' ( Rosamond McKitterick, Evening Standard ); for Allan Massie it is ' An enterprise on a truly Victorian scale ... What is most impressive about this work, apart from the author's mastery of his material and his deployment of it, is his political intelligence '.

Admiral James F. Calvert in his memoir, Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine, and Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood in Sink ' Em All, his narrative of Allied submarine warfare, describe its history.

Northup published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave ( 1853 ), a slave narrative of plantation life on the Red River in Louisiana, and a description of the slave trade in Washington, DC.

In the 1840s personal narrative Two Years Before the Mast, the author ( Richard Henry Dana, Jr .) describes the role of a second mate on an American merchant trading brig as follows:

Years later, he recounted his experiences in the Pequot War in his narrative Major Mason's Brief History of the Pequot War, which wasn't published until 1736.

After his first novel A Strange Solitude ( 1958 ), hailed by François Mauriac and Louis Aragon, Sollers began, with The Park ( 1961 ) the experiments in narrative form that would lead to Event ( Drame, 1965 ) and Nombres ( 1968 ).

Peters ' depiction of Stephen's reign is an essentially local narrative, focused on the town of Shrewsbury and its environs.

Ethan said, " We wanted something that would generate a certain narrative feeling – like a modern Raymond Chandler story, and that's why it had to be set in Los Angeles ... We wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and different social classes ".

Taking the narrative literally and judging from the estimated population of Bethlehem, the Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1910 ) more soberly suggested that these numbers were inflated, and that probably only between six and twenty children were killed in the town, with a dozen or so more in the surrounding areas.

The Sweet Hereafter is a multiple first person narrative depicting life in a small town in Upstate New York in the wake of a terrible school bus accident in which numerous local children are killed.

Peters's depiction of the civil war is an essentially local narrative, focused on the town of Shrewsbury and its environs.

* Temple, Josiah Howard, History of the town of Whately, Mass: including a narrative of leading events from the first planting of Hatfield: 1660-1871: with family genealogies, Printed for the town by T. R.

In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe.

The rest of the novel then picks up from where the opening chapter left off, and from then on is basically a dual narrative telling the story of the old Rougon couple and their increasingly Machiavellian machinations to get themselves into a position of fortune and respect in Plassans, juxtaposed with Silvère and Miette's continuing love story and the doomed republican militia's disastrous attempt to take the town back.

Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too-serene towns typical in traditional horror movies.

It seems that he was not well known as a poet in his own lifetime, except at his home town, and his greatness as a mystic, a poet, and a master of narrative was not discovered until the 15th century.

The same narrative position is occupied in the monarchial source by the story of a raid by Amalekites on the town of Ziklag, and the subsequent defeat of the Amalekites by David.

In the Latin narrative, " Manes " is said to have come, after his flight from court, from Arabion, a frontier fortress, to Caschar or Carchar, a town said to be in Roman Mesopotamia, in the hope of converting an eminent Christian there, named Marcellus, to whom he had sent a letter beginning: " Manichæus apostle of Jesus Christ, and all the saints and virgins with me, send peace to Marcellus.

There he produced a few documentaries ( Dumka, Golden Hands, Natalia Uzhvy ) and a handful of narrative films: Andriesh ( based on the fairy tale by Moldovan writer Emilian Bukov ), The Top Guy ( a kolkhoz musical ), Ukrainian Rhapsody ( a wartime melodrama ), and Flower on the Stone ( about a religious cult infiltrating a mining town in the Donets Basin ).

" A voice was heard on high " would seem to fit more logically with Matthew's narrative, but it is fairly clear that the town is being referred to.

In any case, the basic plotline of the first film-mysterious strangers arrives in small town to repel marauding invaders-is more like a classic Western narrative.

Set in the fictional town of Heartsdale, Georgia, ( in the fictional Grant County ) the narrative takes place from the perspective of three main characters: Sara Linton, the town's pediatrician and part-time coroner ; her ex-husband to whom she is remarried, Jeffrey Tolliver, who is chief of police ; and his subordinate, detective Lena Adams, Slaughter's most controversial character.

His films numbered 15, of which he also edited and wrote himself, all of them were very low budget, his first three films were westerns, shot in the same town, featuring scenes from each other inserted into the narrative and stock footage.