The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared ( at least in the first volume ; her further volumes introduced a narrator ).

Frank's father's deception of his son ( one of Banks ' central themes, which appears again in The Crow Road ), and the propensity of people for deceiving themselves, are accentuated in the final chapters of the book when new facts force the reader to reassess completely the opinions formed about the narrator.

Marcus Didius Falco is the central character and narrator in a series of novels by Lindsey Davis.

The narrator and central character is playwright Duncan Patullo.

Memling features as the central character and first-person narrator of Terence Morgan's 2010 novel < i > The Master of Bruges </ i >.

The theme of metafiction may be central to the work, as in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( 1759 ) or as in Herman Melville's The Confidence Man, Chapter XIV, in which the narrator talks about the literary devices used in the other chapters.

" The narrator in this novel, an exile in North Africa, rages against his beloved Spain, forming an obsessive identification with the fabled Count Julian, dreaming that, in a future invasion, the ethos and myths central to Hispanic identity will be totally destroyed.

Returning to the central focus of the narrative, the narrator arrives at Ted Casey ’ s house and rings the bell.

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.

Narrative criticism is a complex field, but some central concerns include the reliability of the narrator, the question of authorial intent ( expressed in terms of the context in which the text was written and its presumed intended audience ), and the implications of multiple interpretation ( meaning an awareness that a narrative is capable of more than one interpretation, and thus of the implications of each ).

Ben-Amos analyzed the role of literature in the novel stating that it is " a central component, rather than a reflection, of reality ”, consistend with Fyodor being both narrator and protagonist, also the love of Zina and Fyodor is inter-related to literature and unthinkable without it.

The central character and narrator is a young man named David Balfour ( Balfour being Stevenson's mother's maiden name ), young and naive but resourceful, whose parents have recently died and who is out to make his way in the world.

Through the narrator's first person account we hear the story of the people and the events of i. The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and in, a rebellious man who has left i to live near a forbidden area called the Forgotten Works.

As the title suggests, the central story follows the standard romantic plotline usually known as " boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl " except that the main characters are both boys, the narrator Paul and newcomer Noah.

The park in which the narrator, Sam, walks with various characters — Nicola Six, Guy Clinch and Keith Talent — is Hyde Park in central London.

She first appeared in the play A Very Great Man Indeed where the central character and narrator is the scholar, Herbert Reeve, played by Hugh Burden.

Esther Hicks was a narrator and star of the original version of the film The Secret, as well as a central source of the film's inspiration.

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.

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 ".

Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.

The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.

John Brown played the character " Broadway ," who doubled as host and narrator.

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.

The narrator introduces a character he once dreamed about, an Abyssinian maid who sings of another land.

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An omniscient narrator, almost always a third-person narrator, can reveal insights into characters and settings that would not be otherwise apparent from the events of the story and which no single character could be aware of.

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

In Japan, films had not only live music but also the benshi, a live narrator who provided commentary and character voices.

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.

Voice-overs are often used to create the effect of storytelling by a character / omniscient narrator.

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

Nadsat was the dialect used by the narrator character, Alex, in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.

Evidence for this narrator being different from the earlier novels come from Deighton himself, who is quoted as saying that the narrator of Spy Story is not the same character as the narrator of The IPCRESS File ; in fact, for most of Spy Story, the narrator is named and addressed as " Patrick Armstrong "-although, as another character says, " We have so many different names.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

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 ).

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.

In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator and his words cannot necessarily be taken at face value.

The book has many stylistic parallels with Tristram Shandy, and indeed, the narrator is one of the minor characters from the earlier novel.

Malinche is the narrator of the novel which was published in 1987 by Viking Press.

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

* In the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville many references are made to phrenology and the narrator identifies himself as an amateur phrenologist.

The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood.

The second half of the novel is related by its Gallic narrator from within the ranks of Crassus ' doomed army en route to do battle with Parthia.

* Ellen " Nelly " Dean: The second and primary narrator of the novel, Nelly has been a servant of each generation of both the Earnshaw and Linton families.

* Lockwood: The first narrator of the novel, he comes to rent Thrushcross Grange from Heathcliff to escape society but finally decides he prefers company rather than ending up as Heathcliff.

It is also widely regarded as the first novel to use the device of a narrator who is both unreliable and an observer of, rather than a player in, the actions he chronicles.

The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator.

The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist.

The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration.

Bagoas, the eunuch favorite of Alexander the Great, is the main character and narrator of The Persian Boy, a 1972 historical novel by Mary Renault.

Although Gurgeh never discovers the whole truth, it is ultimately revealed to the reader that Flere-Imsaho was the same drone as Mawhrin-Skel, who was also the narrator of the novel itself.

* Humbert Humbert, narrator of the novel Lolita

The question of morality is not really pursued, neither by the characters in the novel nor by the third person narrator.

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.