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

" Reflectively, the narrator realises that being forced to impose strict laws and to shoot the elephant — he states his feelings against the act, but submits after comprehending he " had got to shoot the elephant "— illustrates an inherent problem of hegemony: " when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

The narrator, like Aquin himself, turns his adventures into a spy thriller to while away the time he is forced to spend in the psychiatric ward of a Montreal prison, where he is awaiting a trial for an unspecified revolutionary crime.

It turns out ( to the narrator's surprise ) that Leo, the simple servant, is actually President of League, and the crisis in Morbio Inferiore was a test of faith which the narrator and everyone else flunked rather dismally.

She gives the narrator a key which turns out to unlock a box of D's compositions, which D burns and buries.

In particular it describes an encounter ( which turns into a one night stand ) between the narrator ( possibly meant to be Mitchell herself as there is a reference in the lyrics to her coming home from the studio ) and " Coyote ", a ranch worker.

As the older woman's interest turns to obsession, the narrator must figure out what their relationship means to her, even as both their lives seem to spiral out of control.

In " Silver Dagger ", the narrator turns away a potential suitor, as her mother has warned her to avoid the advances of men in an attempt to spare her daughter the heartbreak that she herself has endured.

By the end of the spot the narrator turns to the audience and says: " Now ask Coca-Cola to show you the coca tree ...", a direct attack on Coca-Cola.

At the end of the song it turns out that the narrator is already married.

The story relates the formative experiences of narrator Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise.

Unable to deal with the thoughts or presence of most other human beings, Zandor turns to an old acquaintance, the book's narrator, Russell Walker: a depressed, recluse, national newspaper columnist trying to deal with the death of his wife, and teetering on the edge of suicide.

After opening it, it turns out to contain a metal box where the narrator finds some paper manuscripts.

As such, the narrator serves as a prophetic figure who is devoted to the soul.

Earlier in the poem, the narrator says the face " lay in the sand ", referring to the shattered statue.

However, a third-person narrator does not need to be an omnipresent guide, but instead may merely be the protagonist referring to himself in the third person ( also known as third person limited narrator ).

He identifies the opening lines as corresponding to such an oral tradition: " Was it not fitting, brothers, to begin with the olden words of the heroic tales about the campaign of Igor ..." The narrator begins by referring to oral epic tales that are already old and familiar.

In a first-person narrative the story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character within the story, so that the narrator reveals the plot by referring to this viewpoint character as " I " ( or, when plural, " we ").

In Patrick Neate's 2004 book " City of Tiny Lights " the private investigator anti-hero and narrator of the tale, Tommy Akhtar, subsists on a diet of mostly Wild Turkey and Benson and Hedges cigarettes, referring to them as " Benny and the Turk ".

The action takes place in a hospital called Parkview ( most likely referring to the Parkview mental hospital in Topeka, Kansas ) where the anonymous narrator comments on his surrounding from.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

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.

When the narrator cuts Pluto ’ s eye from its socket, this can be seen as symbolic of self-inflicted partial blindness to his own vision of moral goodness.

In section one, the narrator has a vision of the Cross.

Langland's narrator receives his first vision while sleeping in the Malvern Hills ( between Herefordshire and Worcestershire ), which suggests some level of attachment to the area.

A specialized form of the frame is a dream vision, where the narrator claims to have gone to sleep, dreamed the events of the story, and then awoken to tell the tale.

The narrator thinks to himself that perhaps this will last only until the trucks rust and fall apart, but he then has a grim vision of forced assembly lines churning out new generations of trucks, and the trucks doing great efforts such as draining the Okefenokee Swamp and paving much of the wild backcountry, where much of the world, maybe even the oceans, will be flattened out and remade in its new masters ' image.

The narrator reveals himself as Onesimus, a sailor who has received a vision telling him to go to a certain part of Greece and pick up both Polyxena and the prefect's son.

The last paragraph illustrates a certain vision experienced by the narrator a few hours before Odilo's birth: on an open field, lady archers are gathering targets and bows, and shortly after he glimpses an arrow flying point first.

The vision of the two plagues the narrator, and he wanders around Dublin looking for them.

One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

The unidentified narrator speaks in the first person throughout the work, posing as an autobiography.

The unidentified narrator or preacher speaks in the first person throughout the work.

The narrator introduces a character he once dreamed about, an Abyssinian maid who sings of another land.

The poem's claim that the narrator would be inspired to act if the song of the maid could be heard was a belief that Coleridge held regarding Evans after she become unattainable to him.

The story of a maid who got the recipe for jam tarts wrong was mentioned on the programme, although the narrator seemed skeptical about the story.

The story is introduced by a narrator and further expanded by the family maid, Sabina.

It is told in the first person, the narrator being a relative of the high-born and high-spirited maid of Spain, who follows her betrothed across the sea to the New World.

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.

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.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

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

John Brown played the character " Broadway ," who doubled as host and narrator.

* Higgs-The narrator who informs the reader of the nature of Erewhonian society.

But even in Japan, a figure such as the benshi, the live narrator who was a major part of Japanese silent cinema, found his acting career was ending.

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 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:

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

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 narrator of the tale is " Billy Duncan ", " a rough, hardened soldier of fortune ", who is frequently involved in fights that leave him near death.

The young adult narrator, Serge, is a drifting musician who met Kid by chance three years ago in a remote town.

In Japan, films had not only live music but also the benshi, a live narrator who provided commentary and character voices.

" 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.

* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the narrator, who sees the story unfold from a third-party perspective.

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 alcohol pushes the narrator into fits of intemperance and violence, to the point at which everything angers him – Pluto in particular, who is always by his side, becomes the malevolent witch who haunts him even while avoiding his presence.