The song involves a man telling the singer / narrator, at a bar, how he went down to St. James Infirmary ( hospital ) and tragically found his girl ( the so-called " baby ") dead.

At the opening of the book, the narrator, Rabo Karabekian, apologizes to the arriving guests: " I promised you an autobiography, but something went wrong in the kitchen ..." He describes himself as a museum guard who answers questions from visitors coming to see his priceless collected art.

The program went on ( from the Los Angeles studios of CBS Radio Station KNX ), with Martin Gabel as host / narrator and with William L. Shirer ( via cable from New York ) re-creating his role as reporter in the Compeigne forest covering the French surrender to Germany.

For over a year the narrator never went with any of the girls.

The narrator went ahead with the case and was able to convince the jury that he was not guilty because the police car was unmarked, and, therefore, it was natural for someone who grew up in a rough area to try to flee.

Immediately after the trial the narrator went looking for his friend Al.

Shooting an Elephant is a possibly autobiographical account by George Orwell in which he describes how an elephant in Burma had an attack of musth and went on to kill an Indian, leading the story's narrator to shoot it.

The Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall documentary focused mainly on the making of the band's 1979 album The Wall, the concert shows that went with it and the making of the Pink Floyd — The Wall movie and features no narrator.

The narrator, Ariel Makaroff ( Daniel Hendler ), is the son of Sonia Makaroff ( Adriana Aizemberg ) who was deserted by her husband ( Jorge D ' Elía ) when he went to Israel in 1973 to fight in the Yom Kippur War.

" Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again " is the book's famous opening line, and after the first two chapters, its unnamed narrator ( she is only known by her title, Mrs de Winter ) reminisces about her past.

The angle was dropped when Raven went to the WWF, and Mitchell was subsequently rebranded as The Sinister Minister, a heel narrator for ECW on TNN, much like the Crypt Keeper in Tales from the Crypt.

The book follows the childhood memories of the narrator, illustrating various experiences in his life: fishing on the beach at dawn ; his grandparents and how one grandfather went mad ; a hunchback great-uncle ; the betrayal of children by adults ; fear of the unknown ; an unwanted pregnancy, violence, possibly even murder.

The song is a word of warning to a would-be suitor who, after the narrator of the song rebuffed his advances, went on to spread nasty rumours accusing the narrator of romantic indiscretions.

He also writes a history of San Lorenzo that the narrator reads on his flight to the island.

The narrator leaves his apartment in San Francisco and drives to Oakland where he works as a legal aid lawyer.

Having stopped off to pick up some scotch and now already drunk, the narrator goes to Trader JJ ’ s, a San Francisco bar he frequents.

This section of the story takes place over the course of three days as the narrator drives away from San Francisco.

Alice B. Toklas, as narrator of the work, says she was born into an affluent family in San Francisco.

From 1950-1953 Beaumont was the narrator of the Reed Hadley series, Racket Squad, based on the cases of a fictional detective, Captain John Braddock, in San Francisco.

At the beginning of each video shown, the narrator commonly says the place, sometimes followed by the time and date ; for example, " San Diego, California, 1995 " during Shawn Nelson's M60 Patton tank rampage.

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.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

The novel shows the genre's results of changing perspectives: individual points were presented by the individual characters, and the central voice of the author and moral evaluation disappeared ( at least in the first volume ; her further volumes introduced a narrator ).

However, at several points Alton appears to address the viewer rather than Inspector Warren, and the unclear role of the Scientist as narrator makes things even more confusing.

" 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.

In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator and his words cannot necessarily be taken at face value.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

Although Pluto is a neutral character at the beginning of the story, he becomes antagonistic in the narrator ’ s eyes once the narrator becomes an alcoholic.

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.

Toward the end, the narrator expresses the terror and agony of remaining a ghost in the advent of full daybreak in heaven, comparing the experience to having large blocks fall on one's body ( at this point falling books awaken him ).

It is implied by the text that the narrator fears what he sees at the bottom of the pit, or perhaps is frightened by its depth.

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.

From Chapter III to Chapter X, where the narrator obtains a job at " Hotel X ," he describes his descent into poverty, often in tragi-comic terms.

The title refers to two bus routes that cross at this intersection ; in the song, the narrator is waiting at a bus stop.

In the 2011 BBC Radio 4 adaptation Robert Powell played the narrator ; he has known Garner since he was a schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School.

* Action Comics # 590: The narrator recounts exactly how Chemo is destroyed on Earth-4 by the Negative Woman in Crisis on Infinite Earths # 9, stating, " Weeks ago on a parallel earth that no longer exists ," and goes on to specify how he survived when all the Earths merged into one single Earth at the end of the Crisis.

The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from Miami to Chicago, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to Philip Morrison, and much improved graphics.

The narrator is surprised that the raven can talk, though at this point it has said nothing further.

Presumably at the time of the poem's recitation by the narrator, the raven " still is sitting " on the bust of Pallas.

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.

* Dinner at Noon ( narrator ), 1988