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 of the poem discusses sexuality throughout the text, spending several lines, including lines 57-58 where he says:

Though privy to many of the thoughts and feelings of the protagonists, the narrator is a self-proclaimed writer ; he discusses his own mannerisms and personal perceptions so often in the novel that he becomes a character.

John discusses current affairs with the narrator, and asserts that he has no interest in helping humanity.

* Now and On Earth a Jim Thompson novel in which the narrator discusses the story at length, and frequently refers back to it as a metaphor for his own life.

In line 20, the narrator refers to Jesus as " Christ the tiger ", which emphasizes judgment rather than compassion, according to Jewel Spears Brooker in Mastery and Escape: T. S.

According to Karl May's story, first-person narrator Old Shatterhand encounters Winnetou and after initial dramatic events, a true friendship between Old Shatterhand and the Apache Winnetou arises ; on many occasions they give proof of great fighting skill but also of compassion for other human beings.

The men around him, observes the narrator, `` have been living from day to day for thousands of years ''.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

In Diablo III, a travelling scholar named " Abd al-Hazir " functions as the narrator for many of the game's features.

This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator so there is no one for Poirot to mislead.

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 ).

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:

Elwes ' voice-over work includes the narrator in James Patterson's audio book The Jester, as well as characters in film and television animations such as Quest for Camelot, Pinky and The Brain, Batman Beyond, and the English versions of the Studio Ghibli films Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns.

Jeffrey Lewis composed Epitaphium — Children of the Sun for narrator, chamber choir, piano, flute, clarinet and percussion.

Each gaming system has its own name for the role of the gamemaster, such as " judge ", " narrator ", " referee ", " director ", or " storyteller ", and these terms not only describe the role of the gamemaster in general but also help define how the game is intended to be run.

In December 2010, MacLeod is scheduled to appear as a guest narrator with the Florida Orchestra and Master Chorale of Tampa Bay for three concerts.

He acts as a sort of narrator but gives no narration relevant to the plot ; that job is reserved for the film's primary narrator, Timothy Farrell.

Then Marlow and his listeners were silent ; our first narrator explains: " Nobody moved for a time.

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

" Samuel Coale, in a 1974 discussion of Kosiński's fiction, wrote that " the narrator of Steps for instance, seems to be nothing more than a disembodied voice howling in some surrealistic wilderness.

In the passage quoted above, the narrator asserts that his sacrifices are not to curry favor or gain an inheritance, common reasons for making vows among those who would not hesitate to sacrifice their slaves or even children if it would bring them an inheritance.

The Gospel of Matthew states that the " disciples were indignant " and John's gospel states that it was Judas Iscariot who was most offended ( which is explained by the narrator as being because Judas was a thief and desired the money for himself ).

The first documented appearance of the word " nerd " is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo ( 1950 ), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect " a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too " for his imaginary zoo.

308, calls for narrator, orchestra, and solo accordion.

" For Job, for friends, and for the narrator, it is ultimately Yahweh himself who is responsible for Job's suffering ; as Yahweh says to the ' satan ', ' You have incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

" David Harley Serlin observes in the second half of Melville's diptych, " The Tartarus of Maids ," the narrator gives voice to the oppressed women he observes: " As other scholars have noted, the " slave " image here has two clear connotations.

" When the narrator is separated from Ruth, with whom he has fallen in love, he is free to explore other sexual ( and religious ) possibilities before deciding at the end of the poem to participate in the ritualistic order marriage represents.

Other classifications used also include: ḥasan ( good ), which refers to an otherwise ṣaḥīḥ report suffering from minor deficiency, or a weak report strengthened due to numerous other corroborating reports ; and munkar ( denounced ) which is a report that is rejected due to the presence of an unreliable transmitter contradicting another more reliable narrator.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

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.

After being debriefed, the narrator realizes that evil is not committed by an unreachable other, but instead ordinary people and every day.

The other possible explanation was a man-made vessel, but that was not likely in the opinion of the narrator.

Although the revolution succeeds in averting ecological disaster, the narrator decries the instincts of many of his fellow Loonies (" Rules, laws — always for other fellow ").

Whether Nelly is an unbiased narrator and how far her actions, as an apparent bystander, affect the other characters are two points of her character discussed by critics.

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.

This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view ( including opinions, thoughts, and feelings ) only of the narrator, and no other characters.

At one point the narrator deplores the " newish, three-storied buildings " of Vere Street which are " perfectly flat, without a bow window [...] to break the straightness of the line from one end of the street to the other ".

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.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term " bard ", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author / singer / narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures ( minstrel, skald, scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik ) or any poets, especially famous ones.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

It is a crime story in which the narrator has apparently read Chambers ' book, and uses the phrase to describe one of the other characters.

Schreiber reprised his role as narrator for HBO's 24 / 7: Road to the Winter Classic NHL documentary, which followed the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals as they prepared to face each other in the 2011 NHL Winter Classic at Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 1, 2011.

These readings have the Priest read the part of Christ, a narrator read the narrative, other reader ( s ) reading the other speaking parts, and either the choir or the congregation reading the parts of crowds ( i. e.: when the crowd shouts " Crucify Him!

They are used in other Viz strips when a reporter or narrator is needed and on these occasions Roger is generally ( although not always ) without his usual lecherous and / or violent behaviour.

Several events in the two books appear to contradict each other, and these inconsistencies provide an example of the unreliable narrator, allowing the readers to decide which version of events they believe to be accurate.

Generally, a first-person narrator brings greater focus on the feelings, opinions, and perceptions of a particular character in a story, and on how the character views the world and the views of other characters.