He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

Twice, the murderer surprisingly turns out to be the unreliable narrator of the story.

Again, Poirot is not reliable as a narrator of his personal history and there is no evidence that Christie sketched it out in any depth.

When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

As their severely damaged home offers little protection, the Kemps suffer from radiation sickness, and Mrs. Kemp is also severely burned ( the narrator points out: " the symptoms of radiation sickness and panic are identical ").

The narrator points out that the entire peacetime resources of the National Health Service, had they survived, would be unable to cope with the casualties from just the one bomb that hit Sheffield.

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

Similarly, he served as narrator for the 2007 film Dale, about the life of the legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, which turned out to be Newman's final film performance in any form.

" 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.

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.

In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called " El Pachuco ," in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the World War II-era rioting in California brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police.

The narrator mentions here that if he had come two hours earlier he would not only have found Sophia but also his niece — for such was the wife of Mr Fitzpatrick, who had run away with her five years before, out of the custody of Mrs Western.

Blifil now quite rightly, as the narrator points out, suspects that Mrs Western may have turned against his cause.

* 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.

Hearing the old man's heart beating unusually and dangerously fast from terror, the narrator decides to strike, jumping out with a loud yell and smothering the old man with his own bed.

Although he does not want to kill the elephant, the narrator feels pressured by the demand of the crowd for the act to be carried out.

He then lays out a completely reasoned case that the murderer is in fact Dr. Sheppard, who has not only been Poirot's assistant, but the story's narrator.

In Sufjan Stevens ' song " Casimir Pulaski Day ", the narrator brings goldenrod to his girlfriend upon finding out that she has been diagnosed with bone cancer.

In addition, in The Fellowship of the Ring, both Gandalf and Frodo express frustration with hobbits ' staidness and dislike of anything foreign or out of the ordinary, and even in Concerning Hobbits the narrator shows a certain degree of impatience with hobbits ' general narrow-mindedness.

While in Israel, the narrator seeks out an impersonator who has appropriated his identity — sharing the same facial features and name as Philip Roth — and used this celebrity to spread " Diasporism ," a counter-Zionist ideology advocating the return of Israeli Jews to their European nations of exile.

As is evident and as critics such as Francisco Soto have pointed out, the " child narrator " in " Celestino ", Fortunato of " The Palace ...", Hector of " Farewell ..", and the triply named " Gabriel / Reinaldo / Gloomy Skunk " character in " Color " appear to live progressive stages of a continuous life story that is also linked to Arenas's own.

Later on, the narrator and his brother hide out in a farmhouse in Poland before being arrested and interned in two Nazi concentration camps, where he meets his dying mother for the last time.

This is particularly apparent in the section of the book dealing with Italy, where the poverty of the lay population and the relative affluence of the church causes the narrator to urge, in the text of the book, if not directly, the inhabitants to rob their priests.

The narrator, distraught at the loss of his Pearl, falls asleep in an " erber grene "-a green garden-and begins to dream.

* Horatio Benedict dePalfrey a. k. a. " Harry Palfrey "-a functionary of the Russia House and the narrator of the novel

The narrator discusses the centrality of compassion for other people to the preservation of civilization.

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

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

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.

A narrator describes " the truly old ", people, humanoids, humans and others, " human to all appearances ( and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available )" who have walked and continue to walk the earth to this day.

Another problem is that naming people was considered rude in Heian court society, so none of the characters are named within the work ; instead, the narrator refers to men often by their rank or their station in life, and to women often by the color of their clothing, or by the words used at a meeting, or by the rank of a prominent male relative.

" The narrator perceives that the conqueror is not in control, but it is rather the will of the people that governs his actions.

The old place is filled with painful memories including the summer beach house that were used by rich ' white ' people who the narrator refers to as " they " and whose big quarters were scrubbed and cleaned by her father who works as the overseer slave.

; Big Pete Wrigley ( Mike Maronna ): The show's primary narrator, Big Pete often acts as a voice of reason in contrast to the strange occurrences and people around him.

* In this sequel Professor Summerlee, Lord Roxton and the narrator Malone accompany Challenger on a journey to the moon, in a desperate bid to save the people of Ell Ka-Mar, who have crowned Challenger their king.

Despite knowing about the narrator and interacting with same, at no time does the Hooded Claw / Sneekly acknowledge that he and all the people of his world are merely characters in a scripted film.

In I Am a Cat, a supercilious, feline narrator describes the lives of an assortment of middle class Japanese people: Mr. Sneaze ( literally translated from Chinno Kushami, 珍野苦沙弥, in the original Japanese ) and family ( the cat's owners ), Sneaze's garrulous and irritating friend Waverhouse ( Meitei, 迷亭 ), and the young scholar Avalon Coldmoon ( Mizushima Kangetsu, 水島寒月 ) with his will-he-won't-he courtship of the businessman's spoilt daughter, Opula Goldfield ( Kaneda Tomiko, 金田富子 ).

Instead of using a single narrator like Fantasia did, people from different areas of the art world introduce each segment in Fantasia 2000.

An omniscient narrator has omniscient knowledge of time, people, places and events ; a limited narrator, in contrast, may know absolutely everything about a single character and every piece of knowledge in that character's mind, but it is " limited " to that character — that is, it cannot describe things unknown to the focal character.

The narrator is amazed by the harshness of the Starkfield winters and through his experience of the winter he comes to understand the character of the people.

By the mid-20th century, however, the dialect and the " old Uncle " stereotype of the narrator, was considered politically incorrect and demeaning by many African-American people, on account of what they considered to be racist and patronizing attitudes toward African-Americans.

In chapter 6 of Voltaire's novella Candide, the narrator remarks that the University of Coimbra had decided that " the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking.

Instead, Woolf wrote the section from the perspective of a displaced narrator, unrelated to any people, intending that events be seen related to time.

This argument that Wulf is actually the narrator ’ s son gives a different depth to the elegy — it becomes a poem of mourning for her son that seems to be exiled from her and their people.

Between the stories, a female narrator ( credited " The Voice of Cuba ") says such things as, " I am Cuba, the Cuba of the casinos, but also of the people.

For example, the narrator notes: " It has been remarked ( by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author ) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

Most TV versions of this cartoon, particularly on the channels ABC, WB, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network, cut the moment in which the Martian runs through an abstract hell of people yelling and screaming and the narrator suggests that the Martian can commit suicide if he truly feels that no one loves him.

The ramblings of the narrator and Nana's interest in architecture lead to an impressive list of famous people being mentioned in the pages of Politics.