Sentence examples for narrator from inspiring English sources

If it's a first person narrator, it's simpler, but if it's a third person narration then it can accommodate multiple points of view.

A college drop-out, Jack James, is our narrator in this harrowing story of a search for justice.

Andrew Schofield came on as a narrator who spoke in rhyming couplets ("So, did y' hear the story of the Johnstone twins?/As like each other as two new pins") which gave the show an air of Greek tragedy.

Rushdie's narrator, the gloriously-named Moraes Zogoiby, gives us his family's history over four generations with a generous rush of detailing that will recall your first encounter with a crowded Mumbai street.

A five minute video of breathtaking grandiosity followed, with a deep-voiced narrator starting off slowly and gruffly before speeding up into something like a mild ecstasy at the notion of launching Ben Carson into the White House instead of the sun.

The Egyptian novelist's narrator travels with a friend to London after the Suez crisis, where they meet a British soldier who served in Suez but "never got to know the natives there, wot with army rules and all that".

Broken by Daniel Clay (Fourth Estate), has a most indignant narrator, an 11-year-old girl called Skunk, trying to come to terms with violence and cruelty in her suburban neighbourhood.

This dream-Chile is shown through the eyes of three travellers, while the Chilean narrator (Ruiz) rediscovers the strange country that is his birthplace.

"Mario will collect coins if he is hungry, whereas when he is curious, he will explore his environment and autonomously gather knowledge about items he does not know much about yet," explains the narrator.

In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator depicts the "powerful joy" that a tea-soaked madeleine awakes in him when he is "dispirited after a dreary day, with the prospect of a depressing morrow".

The experience – and the guilt he'd felt afterwards about abandoning his friend instead of staying to help – became a defining moment for him, turning him into the type of person who, according to the narrator, would drive out to pick up a friend in the desert in the middle of the night, no questions asked.