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 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.

Variations typically feature a narrator telling the story of a young man " cut down in his prime " ( occasionally, a young woman " cut down in her prime ") as a result of morally questionable behavior.

In his final years, Booke had stopped appearing physically in acting roles, but he continued to perform voice work on several television shows and movies, occasionally as narrator, and sometimes as a cartoon character's voice, in such movies as Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers ( 1987 TV movie ), Gravedale High ( 1990 television series ), and Rock-A-Doodle ( 1991 ).

* Isambard Sinclair ( voiced by David Jason ): The unseen narrator, but occasionally interacts with the characters, sometimes to the point of halting the plot for one reason or another ( in one episode he accidentally sends DM back in time ).

:: One may imitate the agents through use of a narrator throughout, or only occasionally ( using direct speech in parts and a narrator in parts, as Homer does ), or only through direct speech ( without a narrator ), using actors to speak the lines directly.

He served as narrator in various orchestral works, such as Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, and occasionally performed sprechstimme roles in works by Arnold Schoenberg.

The first description of Marlborough Mills in Chapter XV is through the eyes and thoughts of Margaret and the omniscient narrator not only delves into the inner thoughts of her main characters, she also occasionally directly interjects her observations ( Bodenheimer, 1979, pp 293 – 300 ): Thornton " thought that he disliked seeing one who had mortified him so keenly ; but he was mistaken.

A silhouette of Great Mazinger is seen behind Blade but before the narrator can introduce it, Detective Ankokuji interrupts him, saying it's " another story ", with Blade and Great Mazinger disappearing meanwhile.

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 ).

All of the novels are written in first-person narrative with the first three in the series implementing Claudine as the narrator.

' Heart of Darkness ' opens in first person narrative ; our narrator establishes the setting aboard a sailboat, " The Nellie, a cruising yawl ," anchored in the Thames River near Gravesend ( England ).

The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator.

The second, interleaved storyline is told by an initially unnamed narrator, remaining unnamed so as to provide a neutral context for the narrative.

Her use of repetition is ascribed to her search for descriptions of the " bottom nature " of her characters, such as in The Making of Americans where the narrator is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as " As I was saying " and " There will be now a history of her.

For this reason, first-person narrative is often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together.

The whole of the narrative can itself be presented as a false document, such as a diary, in which the narrator makes explicit reference to the fact that he is writing or telling a story.

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.

" 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.

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.

Le Guin employs the self-conscious narrative device in having Lavinia as the first-person narrator know that she would not have a life without Virgil, the creator of the Aeneid and thus hers.

House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee and professed unreliable narrator.

These readings have the Priest read the part of Christ, a narrator read the narrative, other reader ( s ) reading the other speaking parts, and either the choir or the congregation reading the parts of crowds ( i. e.: when the crowd shouts " Crucify Him!

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

English composer Ernest Austin set the whole story as a huge narrative tone poem for solo organ, with optional 6-part choir and narrator, lasting approximately 2½ hours.

The narrative is stuffed with prose letters and lyric poems that the narrator claims were in truth exchanged by the unhappy lovers and put in the book at the behest of his lady.

" The Tell-Tale Heart " is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease ( nervousness ) which causes " over-acuteness of the senses ".

Murders is that the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator, Hastings.

The text projects a narrative voice, but the narrator belongs to an invented or imaginary world, not the real one.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends, or exposition-development-climax-denouement, with important inciting incidents, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality that 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 " ( David Lodge The Art of Fiction 67 ); a given hetergloss of different voices dialogically at play, " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers " ( Lodge The Art of Fiction 97 ; see also the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin for expansion of this idea ); 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.

Monet's Garden is a discontinuous narrative of asymmetrical structure – an interweaving of connected stories with elliptical, interconnected pieces on the narrator of the book.