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.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

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 ".

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

The last in the series, Claudine s ' en va, introduces a new narrator Annie.

Food writing can also refer to poetry and fiction, such as Marcel Proust ’ s À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time ), with its famous passage in which the narrator recollects his childhood memories as a result of sipping tea and eating a madeleine.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

Since the narrator ’ s wife shares his love of animals, he likely thinks of her as another pet, seeing as he distrusts and dislikes humans.

Although Pluto is a neutral character at the beginning of the story, he becomes antagonistic in the narrator ’ s eyes once the narrator becomes an alcoholic.

When the narrator cuts Pluto ’ s eye from its socket, this can be seen as symbolic of self-inflicted partial blindness to his own vision of moral goodness.

The fire that destroys the narrator ’ s house symbolizes the narrator ’ s " almost complete moral disintegration ".

Our Town &# 39 ; s narrator, the Stage Manager, is completely aware of his relationship with the audience, leaving him free to break the fourth wall and address them directly.

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.

The trailer for Spellbound ′ s original theatrical release in America made a great deal of fuss over this cameo, showing the footage twice and even freeze-framing Hitchcock's brief appearance while a breathless narrator informs us that this ordinary-looking man is the film's director.

The film ends with the narrator ’ s brief poem for the lovers: " And all of our hearts free to let all things base go / As taught by Juliet and her Tromeo ".

Both genres employ the narrator as protagonist and " rely upon the illusion of presence in their mode of signification ".

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

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 narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected ( unsuccessfully ) into human beings, eventually returns to England ; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting to their animal natures.

For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.

An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers.

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 ".

The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel.

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

The narrator flies his craft, the " Astronaut ," to visit diminutive beings on Mars.

Young's fictional narrator explains that, on the one hand, the greatest contributor to society is not the " stolid mass " or majority, but the " creative minority " or " restless elite ".

The narrator then finishes the film by concluding that the human race is equivalent to insects crawling on the planet's surface.

In Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) the narrator, Gilbert Markham, brings an elegantly bound copy of Marmion as a present to the independent " tenant of Wildfell Hall " ( Helen Graham ) whom he is courting, and is mortified when she insists on paying for it.

The next day, the narrator returns to the ruins of his home to find, imprinted on the single wall that survived the fire, the figure of a gigantic cat, hanging by its neck from a rope.

Then, completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comments on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around his wife's body.

The alarmed police tear down the wall and find the wife's corpse, and on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screeching black cat.

The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the " grey town ", which is either hell or purgatory depending on how long one stays there.

When the bus reaches its destination, the passengers on the bus — including the narrator — are gradually revealed to be ghosts.

Toward the end, the narrator expresses the terror and agony of remaining a ghost in the advent of full daybreak in heaven, comparing the experience to having large blocks fall on one's body ( at this point falling books awaken him ).

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.

The " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.

He directed the movie, did the interviews and also is the narrator of this four short movies that can be freely seen on the Amnesty website or on YouTube.

The documentary then interviews Dusty Sklar about the contact between Hitler and Hanussen, and the narrator makes the statement about " occult techniques of mind control and crowd domination ".

The narrator manages to track them all down and interviews them about their battles with Cipher from their own perspectives.

When Aslan goes to his death on the Stone Table, the narrator mentions various evil creatures gathered around the White Witch — including " Orknies " ( the name is also directly based on the above Old English term ).

Although epistolary works can be considered multiple-person narratives, they also can be classified separately, as they arguably have no narrator at all — just an author who has gathered the documents together in one place.

The resulting song was a gentle ballad, in which the narrator asks his lover to make a very special vow (" a pact "), one capable of bringing-as he put it-" salvation back ," summarized in the phrase " where there is love, I'll be there ," in an allusion to a passage from Matthew 18: 20, where it is said ( by Jesus ): " For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.