Blending together these two elements is important in any historical novel, but especially in The Feast of the Goat because Vargas Llosa chose to narrate an actual event through the minds of both real and fictional characters.
Writers who have worked in aid, and especially in conflict zones, have to establish some level of credibility by narrating a particularly dangerous event.
Trapped with no way out, Peter decides to pass the time by telling his family the story of the Griffin family history, narrating a chain of events that describe their equally exotic and dysfunctional ancestry.
To underscore these points, the Hong Kong-based jeweler opened the event by narrating a 10-minute video that described his impoverished childhood and how it both shaped his views as an artist and led him to create a new type of porcelain.
I will be narrating a fuller version of these events in my semiautobiographical trilogy, which remains, cruelly, as yet unpublished.
Thus, the author of John's Gospel does not merely narrate a series of events but singles out details that support an ordered theological interpretation of those events.
On the other hand, a prompt that asks you to "Describe the process by which the United States government was divided into three branches" is asking you to narrate a sequence of events.
In her first novel, The Comforters, the character Caroline Rose, a writer, starts to believe that she can hear a typewriter and a voice narrating the events of her life – in precisely the same words as the novel the reader is holding.
At the first interview, Alicia was ambiguous about what happened, narrating the event as though it were accidental ('it just kind of slipped in'), perhaps reluctant to draw attention to not having been involved in the decision.
Stephens seems to be narrating the events he is recording for the benefit of a woman with whom he is angry; the video is presented as a cruel message to her.
The ceremony was an occasion for which spectators paid hundreds of pounds for a ticket to see an event narrated by a man who epitomizes the message that these Games are shouting to the world.
