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 turns prophetic, referring to a vision of an unidentified " Abyssinian maid " who sings of " Mount Abora ".

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

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.

One trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy not only spoofs the " In a World Where " theme, but also includes LaFontaine parodying himself when the narrator defines what a trailer is, saying " Trailers also normally employ ( enter Don's voice ) ' A deep voice, that sounds like a seven-foot-tall man, who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood '.” The trailer is voiced by fellow voice-over artist Stephen Fry.

The narrator is taken to Mars, which is imagined as a socialist utopia.

The racial laws have restricted their ability to socialize with the Ferrarese Christians, and so the narrator, Alberto, Micòl, and Giampi Malnate ( an older Christian friend with socialist views ) form an informal tennis club of their own, playing several times a week at the court in the Finzi-Continis ' garden.

Written in the form of a diary by a supporter of the socialist revolution who comes to see the horrors he has wrought, the narrator begins by applauding expropriation, the use of force to prevent emigration, and the reassignment of people to new tasks, all the while assuring doubters that paradise is just around the corner.

The narrator, who has socialist ideals, attempts to get to know the workers, but Zorba warns him to keep his distance: " Man is a brute ....

Hammer, the first person narrator of the story, describes her as " radiating sex in every manner and gesture " (" Mary only had sex.

The narrator Tristram Shandy explains how his mother was conditioned by his father's habit of winding up a clock before having sex with his wife:

It also includes extended digressions by Dyeth as the narrator, speaking to the reader about history, art, sex, politics and civilization.

The boy / narrator believes that the girl is refusing him because she comes from a religious Catholic family and that she believes sex before marriage is sinful.

But though these boys " career " around the neighbourhood in a very childlike way, they are also aware of and interested in the adult world, as represented by their spying on the narrator ’ s uncle as he comes home from work and, more importantly, on Mangan ’ s sister, whose dress “ swung as she moved ” and whose “ soft rope of hair tossed from side to side .” These boys are on the brink of sexual awareness and, awed by the mystery of the opposite sex, are hungry for knowledge.

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.

When the narrator describes the " ancestral voices prophesying war ", the idea is part of the world of understanding, or the real world.

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.

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

In 2008, folk musician Dar Williams released a song called " Buzzer ", in which the narrator participated in the Milgram experiment.

Another approach to the authorship is that offered by Rashi, consistent with allegorical interpretations, rendering the narrator " he to whom peace belongs ", i. e.: God.

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

The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the " grey town ", which is either hell or purgatory depending on how long one stays there.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

Oklahoma songwriter Bob Childers, sometimes called " the Dylan of the Dust ", served as narrator.

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of " the Illustrated Man ", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

* The Balladeer ( voice of Waylon Jennings ) sang and played the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, " Good Ol ' Boys ", and also served as the show's narrator.

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.

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

One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

The narrator states that they once overheard a " high-minded ", " golden-haired ", and " white-armed " maiden speaking with a " glossy-beaked raven ".