* James Stevens ( Mr Stevens ) – the narrator, an English butler who serves at Darlington Hall.

* William Stevens ( Mr Stevens senior ) – the 72-year-old father of butler Stevens ( the narrator ), serving as under-butler ; Stevens senior suffers a severe stroke during a conference at Darlington Hall.

On occasion the narrator acknowledges the potential inaccuracy of his recollections and this serves the reader by inviting him to question the pedigree of the information relayed by Stevens ; the more the reader learns about Stevens ’ s character, the more we are able to interpret the sub-textual intention of the fragments of memory presented by him.

In Sufjan Stevens ' song " Casimir Pulaski Day ", the narrator brings goldenrod to his girlfriend upon finding out that she has been diagnosed with bone cancer.

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 ''.

An unnamed narrator recalls the events surrounding his meeting Alberto Pelagutti, a troublemaker, in high school.

The narrator recalls the beach house was empty two months of the year forbidden for them to use.

There is also a more oblique but definite reference to Tooter Turtle in the novel Bright Lights, Big City, in which the second-person narrator recalls these cartoons from his childhood, and wishes that he ( like Tooter ) could be rescued from his current predicament by a friendly wizard.

It was 1920 in the southwest West Virginia coal fields, and, as the narrator recalls, " things were tough.

At one point, the narrator recalls:

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.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

The narrator bitterly reflects on his life and feels he has accomplished nothing worthwhile.

Similarly, he served as narrator for the 2007 film Dale, about the life of the legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, which turned out to be Newman's final film performance in any form.

Roscoe is not necessarily a reliable narrator: He has loved, respected, and pitied Edith all his life.

Late in life, he served as narrator for a British television series on the films of Charlie Chaplin, Unknown Chaplin, which was aired in the U. S. on PBS and later issued on home video.

The narrator remarks to himself that his " friend " the raven will soon fly out of his life, just as " other friends have flown before " along with his previous hopes.

Le Guin employs the self-conscious narrative device in having Lavinia as the first-person narrator know that she would not have a life without Virgil, the creator of the Aeneid and thus hers.

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 takes on his alter ego after dissatisfaction in his life and by the end of the movie tries to eradicate his alter ego.

The narrator claims that now " the weakest and the meekest were bound to admit, at last, that the race of life was fair ".

Cromer featured as the location for an episode of " An American In England ", written by Norman Corwin with the narrator staying in The Red Lion Hotel and retelling several local accounts of life in the town at wartime.

This being slowly infiltrates the life of the story's narrator, first via a manuscript describing its cult.

The narrator befriends him and comes up with a plan to introduce him to the public in such a way that they will accept him, so he will not need to spend his life in concealment.

Having spent some of his life in Burma in a role akin to that of the narrator, the degree to which Orwell's account is autobiographical is disputed, with no conclusive evidence to prove it to be fact or fiction.

It follows the adventures of the titular narrator Richmond, first his early wandering life, then cases he investigates when he later joins the Runners.

The final tracks include the " Finale and Largo " and the " End Title " music, which is used while the narrator describes the settler's escape to the coast to start a new life.

The main plot tells the misadventures of Destin's acting company and presents us with an intrusive narrator who disappears when some of the characters tell their life stories such as Destin, La Caverne and La Garouffiere.

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.

He regularly visits the grave of a friend, but for the moment refuses to tell the narrator any details of his earlier life.

The narrator is at an earlier stage in his own transition from a simplistic celebration of life in the opening pages to his own growing separation from mankind.

* A recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Simon, conductor, Yadu ( aka Dr. Konrad Czynski ), narrator, Bonnie Ward Simon, elucidator of Peter and the Wolf with additional educational and entertaining tracks including Russian folk music with the Trio Voronezh, Prokofiev's life, and a music lesson by Maestro Simon.

It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay.

* Mary Dempster — Ten years older than the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay, she plays a pivotal role in his life where she assumes saint-like proportions despite being held in an insane asylum.

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

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

Zeikowitz argues that the narrator of the poem seems entranced by the Knight's beauty, homoeroticising him in poetic form.

The extent to which the narrator claims to have loved his animals suggests mental instability in the form of having “ too much of a good thing ”.

Genji follows the traditional format of monogatari — telling a tale — particularly evident in its use of a narrator, but Keene claims Murasaki developed the genre far beyond its bounds, and by doing so created a form that is utterly modern.

One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

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.

These have been distinguished as the Wiesbaden edition, the Petersburg edition, and the final plan, involving the shift from a first-person narrator to the indigenous variety of third-person form invented by Dostoyevsky.

In the same year he wrote Morning Heroes, a work for narrator, chorus and orchestra, written in the hope of exorcising the spectre of the First World War: " Although the war had been over for more than ten years, I was still troubled by frequent nightmares ; they all took the same form.

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.

The Big Bad Wolf is the song's narrator, and he is telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the first person form.

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.

In this traditional art form, sometimes rather misleadingly called ' Korean Opera ', a narrator may play the parts of all the characters in a story, accompanied by a drummer.

The narrator may speak as a particular character or may be the invisible narrator or even the all-knowing narrator who speaks from above in the form of commenting on the action or the characters.

The narrator may speak as a particular character or may be the invisible narrator or even the all-knowing narrator who speaks from above in the form of commenting on the action or the characters.

This jump is a form of narration ; it is as if a narrator whispers to us: " meanwhile, on the other side of the forest ".

* Dunstan ( Dunstable ) Ramsay — The main focus and narrator of the novel, which takes the form of a letter to the headmaster of Colborne College, from which Ramsay has recently retired.

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well ; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.