The narrator is sure they are to be killed but is surprised when he finds the drunk man only asking for a bit of money for drinks, stating they have just come from a wedding and want a bit more to celebrate.

Whenever he has the money, he drinks in the inn in which the narrator was a young waiter.

In it, the female narrator can be found wielding a pen and scribbling her diary entries under the most dramatic and unlikely of circumstances.

The narrator stresses that children most readily learn all forms of vice from their parents.

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 ).

In 1954, Burton took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later.

According to the narrator, most people live in one of six major underground " warrens " linked by " tube ", a system of underground trains.

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.

The narrator describes it as one of the most shameful incidents ever in British military history.

Ken Roberts, best known as a soap-opera announcer ( Love of Life ; The Secret Storm ), was the narrator of some segments during season one, most notably the parody of the genre that had given him prominence, Love of Chair.

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.

As the first-person narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, Bertie ranks as one of the most vivid comic creations in popular literature.

A guest narrator is also invited most years to read the Christmas story from the Book of Luke.

The unnamed narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G —.

Then it is up to the reader to decide which narrator seems most reliable for each part of the story.

Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit.

Similarly, al-Suyūṭī described six levels of terms used to criticize a narrator ; he arranged them beginning with the least severe and concluding with the most severe criticism.

Unlike Doctorow, Coover uses real names for most protagonists of the case, and uses a fictionalized Richard Nixon as his narrator for half of the chapters.

* Jugement du roy de Behainge (" Judgement of the King of Bohemia ") ( before 1346 ) – The narrator hears a debate between a lady ( whose lover is dead ) and a knight ( betrayed by his lady ); in order to proclaim one or the other the most unhappy, the narrator seeks out the advice of the King of Bohemia who consults allegories, and the unhappy knight is declared the winner.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

It rests upon the most elegant of all twists, the narrator who is revealed to be the murderer.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends, or exposition-development-climax-denouement, with important inciting incidents, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality that 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 " ( David Lodge The Art of Fiction 67 ); a given hetergloss of different voices dialogically at play, " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers " ( Lodge The Art of Fiction 97 ; see also the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin for expansion of this idea ); 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.

He is one of the play's most important characters, as he often acts as a narrator.

Hooked to a penile catheter and an IV bottle, the narrator begins a harrowing journey on his hospital bed through the underworld that seems to lie beneath the city streets.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

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.

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.

" 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.

* lines 12. 93-130 – Catullus has heirs, so the narrator is acting as a friend not a legacy-hunter ( captator ).

The narrator would thereby be elevated to an awesome, almost mythical status, as one who has experienced an Edenic paradise available only to those who have similarly mastered these creative powers:

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

Lemmy has also appeared in several movies from Troma Entertainment, including the narrator in 1996's Tromeo and Juliet and as himself in both Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.

A Kickstarter project has been launched to fund the development of this new game or SpaceVenture, which will also feature the voice of Gary Owens, narrator of Space Quest IV and 6.

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.

The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals.

Like the narrator in Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart ", the narrator of " The Black Cat " has questionable sanity.

Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.

The narrator speculates that for millions of years ( evidenced by dust buildup around its forcefield ) the artifact has been transmitting signals into deep space, but it ceases to transmit when, some time later, it is destroyed " with the savage might of atomic power ".

The narrator bitterly reflects on his life and feels he has accomplished nothing worthwhile.

It is first used in Chapter Thirty, after the narrator has just had his first sexual experience.

D ' Aulnoy's book has a remarkably similar structure to the Nights, with the tales told by a female narrator.

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.