Heinlein reveals near the end of Starship Troopers that the novel's protagonist and narrator, Johnny Rico, the formerly disaffected scion of a wealthy family, is Filipino, actually named " Juancita Rico " and speaks Tagalog in addition to English.

It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.

* 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.

In June 2007, Gametrailers made a countdown in which the top 10 best Star Wars games are listed, and in said list Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast ranks as number one ; the narrator mentions that " this may not be the first time in which you play as a Jedi in a video game, but this is the first time in which you actually felt like one ".

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.

It is unclear, however, if the narrator actually has very acute senses or if he is merely imagining things.

Bugs thanks the narrator, but he doesn't know that the narrator is actually Lola's dad, trying to lure him away from Lola.

Furthermore, the narrator is able to visualise more than what actually exists on the urn.

" The poem is written by Ligeia as she is dying, though it is actually recited by the narrator, her husband.

First-person narrations may be told like third-person ones, with a person experiencing the story without being aware that they are actually conveying their experiences to an audience ; on the other hand, the narrator may be conscious of telling the story to a given audience, perhaps at a given place and time, for a given reason.

A naive narrator is one who is so ignorant and inexperienced that he / she actually exposes the faults and issues of his / her world.

Along with Guest, the film stars Catherine O ' Hara and Fred Willard as Ron and Sheila Albertson, a pair of married travel agents ( yet have never traveled outside of Blaine ) who are also regular amateur performers, and give their companions a little too much information at a restaurant dinner ; Parker Posey as the perpetual Dairy Queen employee Libby Mae Brown ; Bob Balaban as Lloyd Miller, the increasingly frustrated musical director who actually possesses some talent ; Lewis Arquette as Clifford Wooley, a " long time Blaineian " and retired taxidermist who is Red, White and Blaines bean-loving narrator ; Matt Keeslar as the handsome and oblivious mechanic Johnny Savage, who Corky goes out of his way to get into the play ; and Eugene Levy as Dr. Alan Pearl, a tragically square dentist determined to discover his inner entertainer.

In a curious device, repeated for each of the incidents, the omniscient narrator never actually shows us the details of the incident.

This argument that Wulf is actually the narrator ’ s son gives a different depth to the elegy — it becomes a poem of mourning for her son that seems to be exiled from her and their people.

In still another interpretation, Georg is actually the narrator with 1st person being his self-rationalized view of himself ( as if a continent away and tied to family and hopeless for the future ).

Thus, this is the Nabokovian twist: at the end of the short story, the reader learns that the narrator is not actually the author of the piece, but rather is being unconsciously and mockingly influenced in both his writing and the events surrounding him by the dead sisters.

Holmes is never actually described as wearing a deerstalker by name in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, but in The Adventure Of Silver Blaze, the narrator, Doctor Watson, describes him as wearing " his ear-flapped travelling cap ", and in The Boscombe Valley Mystery, as wearing a " close-fitting cloth cap ".

It turns out ( to the narrator's surprise ) that Leo, the simple servant, is actually President of League, and the crisis in Morbio Inferiore was a test of faith which the narrator and everyone else flunked rather dismally.

The narrator learns that the Major is actually Stephan Murai.

Parsley did not actually speak ( although he did have his own signature tune: " I'm a very friendly lion called Parsley ....") but his thoughts were voiced by the narrator.

Each episode is divided into three chapters ; each one's title, as the narrator once quipped, is " some pun on the word ' sheep ' or something ": in the episode To Sheep, Perchance, To Dream, one of the chapters was actually named " Some Pun On The Word Sheep ".

The introduction puts an emphasis on the idea of the unreliable narrator ; Delany's accounts often contrast his life as it " felt " to ways in which it actually occurred.

And narrator ’ s actually revisiting his house, and he ’ s seeing the girl that he ’ s got back home is hanging out with some other guy, and he misses home.

In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe.

In Turn Coat, the eleventh book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, the narrator mentions that there are in his universe " terrors that the Black-Goat-with-a-Thousand-Young wouldn't dare use for its kids ' bedtime stories.

* John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany mentions the narrator, John, teaching Tess of the d ' Urbervilles to high school students.

In the movie Platoon the narrator and main character mentions Wampum, Pennsylvania, as one of the small towns that U. S. soldiers in Vietnam typically hailed from.

* In the 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, the narrator of the Book One mentions hearing of the myth of " thirty-six hidden saints " while in college and compares the actions of his Christian brother Corrigan to one of the saints.

The narrator mentions here that if he had come two hours earlier he would not only have found Sophia but also his niece — for such was the wife of Mr Fitzpatrick, who had run away with her five years before, out of the custody of Mrs Western.

The narrator, John Ridd, says he was born on 29 November 1661 ; in Chapter 24, he mentions Queen Anne as the current monarch, so the time of narration is 1702 – 1714 making him 40 – 52 years old.

The term Orc does occur twice ; once in an instance where Gandalf is trying to scare Bilbo by mentioning creatures of the wilderness " goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description ," and again when the narrator mentions Orcs as nothing but large goblins, and also in the Elvish name of Thorin's sword, Orcrist.

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 ).

The Mob's reason for being Penelope's friends and guardians is never explained, although the narrator mentions that they were " benefactors.

* In Walker Percy's 1960 novel " The Moviegoer ", the narrator mentions that his father died in Crete during WWII with a copy of " The Shropshire Lad " in his pocket.

When they meet her, it is quickly made apparent that Marian is strong and capable in battle and the narrator mentions that she could walk or even wiggle on her stomach like a snake faster than the boys could follow.

In the short story " The Perils of the Double Sign " by Robertson Davies, ( which appears in a collection called High Spirits ,) the narrator mentions that Michael Scot is one of his favourite authors, and his knowledge of Scot's work on the occult aids him in his encounters with a genie.

* In James A. Michener ` s novel The Drifters, the narrator mentions in a digression that he learns foreign languages by listening to lectures by tutors.

The text mentions an " idol " whose face is, in some way, recognizable to the Cambridge observers, and which is, the narrator says, " still there " at the end of the events to be narrated.

In the fourth chapter, the child narrator mentions that he liked to think of himself as sneaky as Wrong-Way Corrigan and so called himself Wrong-Way Ragsdale.

While the narrator who opened the first season opens the second season reiterating that information, there is also a continuity error when Artemis mentions during the second series that Queen Beryl had been " completely destroyed.

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 narrator / Ma — Written in Chinese characters, his name in English translates as " Horse Sword Bell ," but in the original French version this is not specified, as he mentions only that the characters making up his name can be drawn as a man riding a horse, a long sword, and a ringing bell.

The connection between this Librarian and the other, in Hard-Boiled Wonderland, is never made explicit, although the narrator repeatedly mentions that she looks familiar.

The main character and narrator ( who never mentions his name ) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City.

Toni Morrison has described the worldwide gender disparity by her characters like Pecola, Frieda, Pauline and the narrator Claudia, who once mentions in the novel that three things have greatly affected her life: being a child, being black, and being a girl.

The narrator mentions near the end of " The Man on Putney Hill " that the weed glows purple at night.