The narrator feels himself catching a glimpse of pre-history, learning of man's `` age-old familiarity with misfortune '', as well as his `` equally age-old ingenuity, his secret faith in endurance, however crammed with catastrophes, the same faith perhaps as the cave-men used to have in the face of famine ''.

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

Although Camus's approach in the book is severe, his narrator emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, and irrationality of life is inevitable.

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 ).

The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

" 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.

* lines 16. 1-6 – The narrator wishes that he could join the legions, since soldiers have many advantages over civilians.

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:

Smith seems to have identified the angel as " Nephi ", which is the name of the Book of Mormon's first narrator.

" 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.

The extent to which the narrator claims to have loved his animals suggests mental instability in the form of having “ too much of a good thing ”.

The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging " to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.

* In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the narrator describes the Oxford of his youth as being " submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonnesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in ..."

His use of Nadsat was essentially pragmatic ; he needed his narrator to have a unique voice that would remain ageless while reinforcing Alex's indifference to his society's norms, and to suggest that youth subculture existed independently of the rest of society.

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.

Shortly before its publication, an introduction, glossary and footnotes, written in the voice of an English narrator, were added to the original text to blunt the negative impact the Edgeworths feared the book might have on English enthusiasm for the Act of Union 1800.

Since the narrator is within the story, he or she may not have knowledge of all the events.

Thus we have an " I " narrator introducing a storyteller as " he " ( Marlow ), who talks about himself as " I " and introduces another storyteller as " he " ( Kurtz ), who in turn presumably told his story from the perspective of " I ".

Levenson and Halpern, for example, note that " the narrator is sufficiently subtle ( or guileless ) to have Bathsheba's grandfather ... instigate the exaction of YHWH's pound of flesh ," as Nathan's curse in 2 Samuel 12: 11 comes to fruition.

Most Goofy skits have him doing a " how-to " segment, always accompanied by a narrator.

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 narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected ( unsuccessfully ) into human beings, eventually returns to England ; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting to their animal natures.

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

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.

That very night, his house mysteriously catches fire, forcing the narrator, his wife and their servant to flee.

Then, one day when the narrator and his wife are visiting the cellar in their new home, the cat gets under its master's feet and nearly trips him down the stairs.

" the narrator trills, in a quavering soprano ; the villain confesses ; the gardener's footsteps are heard coming up the garden path ; the Flower Pot Men vanish into their pots and the closing credits roll.

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 Canadian-British cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings appeared in the 1970s, featuring a child with magic chalk who could create all sorts of short-lived creations in short adventures ( the original version featured a British narrator, but Keeshan's voice was dubbed onto the cartoons for their US airing ).

The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator.

In it the narrator, Paul Iverson, discovers that his recently deceased wife left an encrypted message to him in their bookshelf, quoting Tam Lin.

They ask the narrator for the use of any books or maps of the area – as a favor, because they are fellow Freemasons, and because he spoiled their blackmail scheme.

The strip began on May 26 and chronicled the domestic adventures of nebbishy Chester Tibbet as narrator, his wife Betsy, and their 5-year-old genius son, Farley.

The narrator is one or all of a group of adolescent boys who obsessed over the Lisbon girls from a distance in their youth, and now, as middle-aged men, continue to try to piece together the girls ' story.

Nine princes and four princesses of Amber, including Prince Corwin as narrator of the first book series, try to deal with the disappearance of Oberon, their father, and an apparent need for succession of the throne.

Celine's autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman ( intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition ); his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and prostitutes and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard.

The narrator remarks that they are both already dead and buried back in their homeland of Lacedaemon, thus suggesting that at least in some early traditions, both were mortal.

The ghost of Melquíades in Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or the baby ghost in Toni Morrison's Beloved who visit or haunt the inhabitants of their previous residence are both presented by the narrator as ordinary occurrences ; the reader, therefore, accepts the marvelous as normal and common.

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 ridiculed their writings by calling them " metaphor-run " lapsing into " mysticism for mysticism's sake ".

# Examination of the narrations either written or memorized by that narrator after the passage of time observing any discrepancies with their initial narrations.

The cry of Xenophon's soldiers when they meet the sea is mentioned by the narrator of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, when their expedition discovers an underground ocean.