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Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.
Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:
The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.
* 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 majority of the main characters — Daniel ( the narrator ), Susan, Todd, Bug, Michael, and Abe — are living together in a " geek house ", and their lives are dedicated to their projects and the company.
: The book's narrator and main character.
In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.
The narrator, who occasionally interrupts the narrative flow with asides ( a device common to both children's and Anglo-Saxon literature ), has his own linguistic style separate from those of the main characters.
** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )
Personal flag of Bosk of Port Kar ( a. k. a. Tarl Cabot of Bristol ), the main narrator of the Gor books
He is the main narrator of the film A Hero's Journey / Where the Sun Rises, a 2006 documentary about him and East Timor.
One of the major themes explored is the nature and necessity of art, symbolised by the semi-mystical machinery of the Mima, who relieves the ennui of crew and passengers with scenes of far-off times and places, and whose operator is also the sometimes naïve main narrator.
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.
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.
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.
* Richard-a young British traveller and the main narrator of the novel.
In this adaptation, Tevye plays the role as a narrator of the events as well as a main character.
* The Rainbow and the Rose ( 1958 ): One man's three love stories ; narration shifts from the narrator to the main character and back.
His general fame as a wise and colourful personality has led to his inclusion in narratives as diverse as Mary Renault's historical novel The Praise Singer ( where he is depicted as the narrator and main character ), Plato's Protagoras ( where he is a topic of conversation ), and some verses in Callimachus ' Aetia ( where he is amusingly represented as a ghost complaining about the desecration of his own tomb in Acragas ).
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges named the main character and narrator of his short story " The Immortal " Joseph Cartaphilus ( in the story he was a Roman military tribune who gained immortality after drinking from a magical river and dies in the 1920s ).
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.
Frequently, the author surrogate is the same as the main character and / or the protagonist, and is also often the narrator.
* She is the main character and narrator of Michelle Moran's bestselling novel, The Heretic Queen.
The main narrator of the poem in all the versions is named Will, with allegorical resonances clearly intended, and Langland ( or Longland ) is thought to be indicated as a surname through apparent puns ; e. g., at one point the narrator remarks: " I have lyved in londe ... my name is longe wille " ( B. XV. 152 ).

narrator and character
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 ".
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.
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.
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.

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The term " puppet masters " of the title only occurs twice in the book itself, including the very last statement where the narrator writes: " I feel exhilarated.
The title of the book refers to a cat by the name of Pixel, who has an inexplicable tendency to be wherever the narrator happens to be ( see Schrödinger's cat ).
The " menace " of the title is a beautiful woman tourist who visits the Moon colony and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a 15-year-old girl and aspiring starship designer who is the first person narrator of the story.
The title refers to two bus routes that cross at this intersection ; in the song, the narrator is waiting at a bus stop.
Among the original cast were John Normington as Fitz-Oblong, Michael Jayston as the play's narrator, Bolt perennial Leo McKern as the title character, and Terence Rigby and a young Malcolm McDowell in supporting roles.
For its final two issues, the comic became in effect a horror anthology, with the title character being little more than a host / narrator in several short stories.
It starred Gary Bond in the title role, Peter Reeves as the narrator, and Gordon Waller as Pharaoh.
In an unusual role for him, Kapur provided the voice of Mahatma Gandhi in the Charkha Audio books title of The Story of My Experiments with Truth, alongside Nandita Das as narrator.
* " The Boss ," title bestowed upon the narrator of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The novel follows narrator " Philip Roth " on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission — the " Operation Shylock " of the title.
* Et in Arcadia Ego is also the title of Book One of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in which the narrator, Charles Ryder, describes his room decorated with a skull bearing the phrase.
The climax of the book is the " supreme moment of the cosmos ", when the cosmical mind ( which includes the narrator ) attains momentary contact with the " Star Maker " of the title.
The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song's narrator ; in Camus ' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach, overwhelmed by his surroundings.
The song's narrator dreams of a time when Ireland will be, as the title suggests, a free land, with " our fetters rent in twain.
Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written in the first person and narrated by the title character, Shirley is narrated by an omniscient but unnamed third-person narrator.
Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881.
In 1971, Rankin / Bass produced the Easter special Here Comes Peter Cottontail, with the voices of narrator Danny Kaye, Vincent Price, and Casey Kasem ( as the title character ).
He is the vicar in the title, and the narrator of the story.
The night prior to the death of the title character, who hails from the fictional town of Plumtree, Tennessee, the narrator realizes that " A pal's last need is a thing to heed ," and swears to McGee that he will not fail to cremate him.
While the song lyrics describe a girl " riding out of the life of the narrator ", the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear.
" Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again " is the book's famous opening line, and after the first two chapters, its unnamed narrator ( she is only known by her title, Mrs de Winter ) reminisces about her past.
The signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him.
Before the film proper begins, the title is announced by the narrator ( after delivering a spoken prologue, he says, " And now, ' Portrait of Jennie '").
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 ".

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