The narrator, Stevens, a butler, recalls his life in the form of a diary while the action progresses through the present.

An unnamed narrator recalls the events surrounding his meeting Alberto Pelagutti, a troublemaker, in high school.

The narrator recalls the beach house was empty two months of the year forbidden for them to use.

There is also a more oblique but definite reference to Tooter Turtle in the novel Bright Lights, Big City, in which the second-person narrator recalls these cartoons from his childhood, and wishes that he ( like Tooter ) could be rescued from his current predicament by a friendly wizard.

It was 1920 in the southwest West Virginia coal fields, and, as the narrator recalls, " things were tough.

At one point, the narrator recalls:

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

* Goofy's Extreme Sports: Goofy shows off extreme sports to the words of his offscreen narrator.

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, Angus Scrimm, in his only words in the film, introduces the audience to the creatures called " djinn " with the following statement:

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.

" The lack of a definite voice of the urn causes the reader to question who is really speaking these words, to whom they are speaking, and what is meant by the words, which encourages the reader to interact with the poem in an interrogative manner like the narrator.

" The narrator of the poem uses these words in a different manner:

On June 2010, Djalili appeared in a Meltdown Festival concert given by the Philharmonia Orchestra at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, performing the part of the narrator in ' Rubaiyat ', a tone poem by American classical composer Alan Hovhaness which sets the words of Omar Khayyám to music.

) In that episode, which consisted of three Twilight Zone parodies, opened and closed by the words of a narrator, and would consist of Johnny encountering something strange, for example, being at the mercy of a boy who can seemingly alter reality at will, or fighting a personal war with a clown trying to damage a plane's wing ( only to discover he was one of two clowns kept to " balance " the plane )-the episode also included a talking doll that attempted to commit murder.

It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, " tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands ".

Hooper ’ s narrator writes that the protagonist says: “ He even grew to like sounds unassociated with their meaning, and once made a list of the words he loved most, as doubloon, squadron, thatch, fanfare ( he never did know the meaning of this one ), Sphinx, pimpernel, Caliban, Setebos, Carib, susurro, torquet, Jungfrau.

Nan the narrator describes the irony of her " curious gaslit career " as a rent-boy only to end up — in Diana's words — as her " tart ".

The narrator feels as if he is pronouncing the words: " In me didst thou exist — and in my death, see [...] how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

These words have a dual function: reflecting the mood or attitude of the speaker or narrator, and highlighting the sentence focus.

On the next page following the old woman's quote Hawthorne uses the narrator to point out what the congregation is really feeling inwardly, despite their outward reaction, " A subtle power was breathed in his words.

" Presumably the British narrator had been given a list of words to read and the comma after " George " was either missing or overlooked.

Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Dickens ' words at the beginning and end of the film ; he also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen cynically discussing Scrooge's funeral.

Also as in Un Roi sans divertissement, the story is again told purely in the words of the protagonists, without the intervention of a narrator or comment from the author, thus forcing the reader to reach their own conclusions.

Towards the middle of the story, on the subject of the unbelievability of Cynthia's ideas, the narrator alludes to a " novel or short story ( by some contemporary writer, I believe ) in which, unknown to the author, the first letters of the words in its last paragraph formed, as deciphered by Cynthia, a message from his dead mother.

Bone's final words voiced from narrator Laura Dern:

The Major tells the narrator that he had considered becoming an artist, but that he lacks the large and simple heart needed to inspire humanity with deep and penetrating words.

* Présence, ballet blanc for piano trio and narrator ( with words from Paul Pörtner ) ( 1961 )

They attack him and carve words in his flesh, and these words, claims the narrator, form the rest of the stories, stories written on a literal, living Book of Blood.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

In the former novel, Lazarus is revealed at the end of the novel as the father of protagonist Colin " Richard Ames " Campbell ; whereas in the latter novel, Maureen as narrator tells a somewhat different version of Lazarus ' visit to Earth in 1916-18 and reveals that Lazarus ( as Woodrow " Bill " Smith ) was the backup pilot of the first lunar expedition.

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.

* William Stevens ( Mr Stevens senior ) – the 72-year-old father of butler Stevens ( the narrator ), serving as under-butler ; Stevens senior suffers a severe stroke during a conference at Darlington Hall.

* 1884 Die Hochzeit des Mönchs ( The Wedding of the Monk )-Italy, Dante himself is introduced at the court of Cangrande in Verona as narrator of the strange adventure of a monk who, after the death of his brother, is forced by his father to break his vows but who, instead of marrying the widow, falls in love with another young girl and runs blindly to his fate.

The narrator is Fanny, whose mother ( called " The Bolter " for her habit of serial monogamy ) and father have left her to be brought up by her Aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in the novel.

She also became a friend of Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the father of the novel's narrator, Scout.

It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure, or that the narrator works for the old man as a servant, and that perhaps his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret, or power.

The novel's narrator claims that John Shade's father had a waxwing named for him, Bombycilla Shadei, and in noting the name corrects the taxonomical error: '( this should be shadei, of course )'.

* Charles Ryder — The protagonist and narrator of the story was raised primarily by his father after his mother died.

The old place is filled with painful memories including the summer beach house that were used by rich ' white ' people who the narrator refers to as " they " and whose big quarters were scrubbed and cleaned by her father who works as the overseer slave.

In addition, the line " like my father before me, I will work the land " was changed to " like my father before me, I'm a working man ", changing the narrator from a farmer to a laborer.

His first memory is of a man being crushed by uniformed men against the wall of a house ; the narrator is seemingly too young for a more precise recollection, but the reader is led to infer that this is his father.

As his father lies dying, the narrator receives a letter from Sensei which is recounted in the third part of the novel, Sensei and His Testament.

Later, the narrator hears of Brandy's stories of sexual abuse from their father and later from a policeman, who she concludes must have been Manus.

* In Walker Percy's 1960 novel " The Moviegoer ", the narrator mentions that his father died in Crete during WWII with a copy of " The Shropshire Lad " in his pocket.

A narrator, who is drawn to look like Gaiman, tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath who was once employed by Al Capone.

Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator, quarrels with his father and is sent to stay with an uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, in Northumberland.

In the novel, the narrator presents herself as a lady who has come to Surinam with her unnamed father, a man intended to be a new lieutenant-general of the colony.

For one thing, the narrator says that her father was set to become the deputy governor of the colony and died at sea en route.