In the scene, the narrator contemplates where the boundaries of art lie and how much an artist can represent on an urn.

Leaving the zoo, the narrator contemplates finally living a life independent of Bruce, but sees no immediate release from the situation.

Harold Bloom suggests that the power of the poetic imagination, stronger than nature or art, fills the narrator and grants him the ability to share this vision with others through his poetry.

She is a figure of imaginary power within the poem who can inspire within the narrator his own ability to craft poetry.

# Deliberately altering the wording of a hadith or more for the purpose of examining the ability of the narrator being examined to detect those alterations.

The images on the urn provoke the narrator to ask questions, and the silence of the urn reinforces the imagination's ability to operate.

Morris's ability to create a world which children could relate to through his mimicry led to his best-known role, that of the presenter, narrator and ' zoo keeper ' for Animal Magic.

Ferguson explains that the competition between the narrator and Imoinda arises out of the desire for Oroonoko ’ s body and its ability to produce something extraordinary.

The narrator is shaken by her disturbing ability to accept her fate, regardless of how terrible it may be.

The game's mechanics are focused on quick resolution ; Contests are resolved by comparing the results of two twenty sided dice, each tied to a character ability chosen by players and / or narrator.

One die is rolled for the character's ability, the other for the resistance, a score chosen by the narrator.

The racial laws have restricted their ability to socialize with the Ferrarese Christians, and so the narrator, Alberto, Micòl, and Giampi Malnate ( an older Christian friend with socialist views ) form an informal tennis club of their own, playing several times a week at the court in the Finzi-Continis ' garden.

Unlike rats, however, the narrator continues, Jews have the uncanny ability to change their appearance and blend into their " human hosts.

The narrator often says that he is a sorcerer, but Maanape's magic is seldom seen, though he has twice resurrect Macunaíma when he was inadvertently killed during the story, and the narrator often notices that Maanape already knows something before his brothers themselves notice or has the chance ( and interest ) of share, implying that Maanape has some sort of divinatory / telepathical ability.

The narrator of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata first discovers his ability to " freeze time " while staying at the Barclay Hotel as a child.

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.

The Romanian climate is improved by afforestation, the country is spanned by canals, and the garden-like Bucharest, over which the narrator and Aru, his friend from the future, fly in a moored balloon, no longer has any churches left standing.

Blanter's postwar songs include " The Migrant Birds Are Flying " ( 1949 ), a patriotic Soviet song in which the narrator watches migratory birds fly away and asserts that he can think of no better place to be than the Motherland, and " Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl " ( Russian: Черноглазая казачка ), written especially for the bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov.

The story ends as a pair of planes fly overhead, and the narrator laments " I wish I could believe there are people in them ".

In 1988, Fiedler was the narrator of a McDonald's commercial where Birdie the early bird learns to fly.

The narrator refuses and says that everyone will get their vacation, he will take the ferry, and John will fly.

What does the narrator see and what does he feel??

Rieux, as the narrator, describes what exile meant to them all:

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.

It is implied by the text that the narrator fears what he sees at the bottom of the pit, or perhaps is frightened by its depth.

" Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience's interpretative favor.

According to Leonard Maltin this is what caused the How to ... cartoons of the 1940s in which Goofy had little dialogue, and a narrator ( often John McLeish ) was used ( they would also reuse Colvig's voice in recording or hire a voice actor to imitate it ).

The narrator assumes that the word " Nevermore " is the raven's " only stock and store ", and, yet, he continues to ask it questions, knowing what the answer will be.

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.

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.

At the opening of the book, the narrator, an everyman named John ( a. k. a. Jonah ), describes a time when he was planning to write a book about what important Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed.

By fixing forever on paper what had previously been subject to almost infinite variation, they fixed as the authoritative version an account told by one narrator at a given moment.

The narrator in the story must do as her husband, who is also her doctor, demands, although the treatment he prescribes contrasts directly with what she truly needs — mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined.

To illustrate what he means by defamiliarization, Shklovsky uses examples from Tolstoy, whom he cites as using the technique throughout his works: “ The narrator of ' Kholstomer ,' for example, is a horse, and it is the horse ’ s point of view ( rather than a person ’ s ) that makes the content of the story seem unfamiliar ” ( Shklovsky 16 ).

A Night of Serious Drinking ( 1938 ) is an allegorical novel by the French surrealist writer René Daumal detailing what is ostensibly an extremely simple plot in which the narrator overly imbibes alcohol ; what unfolds however is a novel which explores the extremities of heaven and hell.

And that which was narrated by one or two transmitters only, or by one for whom error was possible, such reports are unacceptable in religions ( al-diyanat ) but they are acceptable in the proceedings of positive law ( furu ` l-fiqh ), as long as the narrator is trustworthy, competent, just, and he has not contradicted what is narrated in the Qur ' an.

* Dit du Lyon (" Story of the Lion ") ( 1342 ) – The narrator comes to a magical island and a lion guides him to a beautiful lady ; an old knight comes to the narrator and reveals the meaning of what he sees and gives him advice for being a better lover.

Many of his films feature a narrator who attempts to give the audience a " moral roadmap " of what they are watching.

Such a narrator cannot know more about other characters than what their actions reveal.

" ( Rutten did criticize what he called the author's " casual obeisance to fashionable postmodernism " in choosing to use his own name for the fictional narrator.

Swift writes A Tale of a Tub in the guise of a narrator who is excited and gullible about what the new world has to offer, and feels that he is quite the equal or superior of any author who ever lived because he, unlike them, possesses ' technology ' and newer opinions.

Swift seemingly asks the question of what a person with no discernment but with a thirst for knowledge would be like, and the answer is the narrator of Tale of a Tub.

No specific aspects of the Champion are named in this song, but the narrator is aware of what he is, a trait belonging only to Erekosë.

Writers and critics of narrative prose call this view the omniscient narrator, who appears to know everything about the story being told, including what all the characters are thinking, and usually speaks in the third person.