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Rieux and narrator
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.
However, Rieux does not function as a first-person narrator.

Rieux and describes
He describes his views to Rieux:
Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.
In this letter he compares himself with the character of Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus ' novel The Plague and describes his hopeless struggle against a plague of death that slowly envelops the inhabitants of his city.

Rieux and what
Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

Rieux and exile
The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.
Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

Rieux and all
Grand catches the plague and instructs Rieux to burn all his papers.

narrator and describes
In the semi-autobiographic Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn the narrator describes a period of time selling the Encyclopædia Britannica door by door in the town.
In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.
The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".
When the narrator describes the " ancestral voices prophesying war ", the idea is part of the world of understanding, or the real world.
The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.
* In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the narrator describes the Oxford of his youth as being " submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonnesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in ..."
The narrator describes the game thusly:
* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.
From Chapter III to Chapter X, where the narrator obtains a job at " Hotel X ," he describes his descent into poverty, often in tragi-comic terms.
The narrator describes it as one of the most shameful incidents ever in British military history.
Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, the narrator of one of the tales in the short story, describes the accidental discovery of the city: " a coast-line of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror — the nightmare corpse-city of R ' lyeh ... loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".
Hammer, the first person narrator of the story, describes her as " radiating sex in every manner and gesture " (" Mary only had sex.
A narrator describes " the truly old ", people, humanoids, humans and others, " human to all appearances ( and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available )" who have walked and continue to walk the earth to this day.
Delirium makes bubbles, finds “ The Dancing Woman ”, and the narrator extensively describes Ruby.
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 narrator ' is a writer named John, also known as Jonah, who describes the events in the book with humorous and sarcastic detail.
The narrator then describes the cauldron of the Chief of Annwn ; it is finished with pearl and will not boil a coward's food.
Dante ( 1265 – 1321 ), in his Paradiso, describes the ascent of his narrator through the spheres of the Moon, the planets from Mercury to Saturn, and thence to the sphere of the fixed stars and the heavens of the angels.
In the opening chapter, the narrator describes Kear's time at the college, saying " he was president of the Union and but for an unfortunate attack of measles might very well have got his rowing blue ".
In Italo Calvino's novella, The Cloven Viscount, the narrator describes assisting Dr. Trelawney, a doctor-cum-amateur-scientist, in his hunt for will-o '- the-wisps in cemeteries.
The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.
* In Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host the narrator describes an alien race she has encountered who are similar to dolphins and have three distinct sexes, all of which are required for reproduction and have separate societal roles.
The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: " My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature .... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.
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.

narrator and what
What does the narrator see and what does he feel??
The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.
It is implied by the text that the narrator fears what he sees at the bottom of the pit, or perhaps is frightened by its depth.
" Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience's interpretative favor.
According to Leonard Maltin this is what caused the How to ... cartoons of the 1940s in which Goofy had little dialogue, and a narrator ( often John McLeish ) was used ( they would also reuse Colvig's voice in recording or hire a voice actor to imitate it ).
The narrator assumes that the word " Nevermore " is the raven's " only stock and store ", and, yet, he continues to ask it questions, knowing what the answer will be.
Poe leaves it unclear if the raven actually knows what it is saying or if it really intends to cause a reaction in the poem's narrator.
Supporters of the claim have pointed to Book IV as providing its strongest evidence, as when the narrator asks “ You mean to see we have been hadding a sound night ’ s sleep ?”, and later concludes that what has gone before has been “ a long, very long, a dark, very dark [...] scarce endurable [...] night .” Tindall refers to Book IV as " a chapter of resurrection and waking up ", and McHugh finds that the chapter contains " particular awareness of events going on offstage, connected with the arrival of dawn and the waking process which terminates the sleeping process of Wake.
By fixing forever on paper what had previously been subject to almost infinite variation, they fixed as the authoritative version an account told by one narrator at a given moment.
The narrator in the story must do as her husband, who is also her doctor, demands, although the treatment he prescribes contrasts directly with what she truly needs — mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined.
To illustrate what he means by defamiliarization, Shklovsky uses examples from Tolstoy, whom he cites as using the technique throughout his works: “ The narrator of ' Kholstomer ,' for example, is a horse, and it is the horse ’ s point of view ( rather than a person ’ s ) that makes the content of the story seem unfamiliar ” ( Shklovsky 16 ).
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.
And that which was narrated by one or two transmitters only, or by one for whom error was possible, such reports are unacceptable in religions ( al-diyanat ) but they are acceptable in the proceedings of positive law ( furu ` l-fiqh ), as long as the narrator is trustworthy, competent, just, and he has not contradicted what is narrated in the Qur ' an.
* Dit du Lyon (" Story of the Lion ") ( 1342 ) – The narrator comes to a magical island and a lion guides him to a beautiful lady ; an old knight comes to the narrator and reveals the meaning of what he sees and gives him advice for being a better lover.
Many of his films feature a narrator who attempts to give the audience a " moral roadmap " of what they are watching.
Such a narrator cannot know more about other characters than what their actions reveal.
" ( Rutten did criticize what he called the author's " casual obeisance to fashionable postmodernism " in choosing to use his own name for the fictional narrator.
Swift writes A Tale of a Tub in the guise of a narrator who is excited and gullible about what the new world has to offer, and feels that he is quite the equal or superior of any author who ever lived because he, unlike them, possesses ' technology ' and newer opinions.
Swift seemingly asks the question of what a person with no discernment but with a thirst for knowledge would be like, and the answer is the narrator of Tale of a Tub.
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.
Writers and critics of narrative prose call this view the omniscient narrator, who appears to know everything about the story being told, including what all the characters are thinking, and usually speaks in the third person.

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