What is an example of a narrator?

Question

in any story at all. i just need one.

Answer 1

In the movie "Stand By Me", there is double narration in that

Answer 2

If you've ever watched "the Wonder Years" you hear the narrator telling the story from Kevin's point of view.

Answer 3

it's the person narrating the story.

-first person narrator example:

i was walking down the road really fast but he grabbed my neck and pointed a gun at the side of my head. i screamed for mercy.

-second person narrator:

You are walking down the road really fast but he grabbed your neck and pointed a gun at the side of your head. you screamed for mercy.

-third person narrator:

Sheila was walking down the road really fast but he grabbed her neck and pointed a gun at the side of her head. she screamed for mercy.

Answer 4

Holden Caulfield, the narrator and main character in The Catcher in the Rye, one of the most famous books of all time.  He tells the story.

Answer 5

one who relates a series of events or transactions.

Literary Dictionary: narrator

narrator [nă‐ray‐ter], one who tells, or is assumed to be telling, the story in a given narrative. In modern analysis of fictional narratives, the narrator is the imagined ‘voice’ transmitting the story, and is distinguished both from the real author (who may have written other tales with very different narrators) and from the implied author (who does not recount the story, but is inferred as the authority responsible for selecting it and inventing a narrator for it). Narrators vary according to their degree of participation in the story: in first‐person narratives they are involved either as witnesses or as participants in the events of the story, whereas in third‐person narratives they stand outside those events; an omniscient narrator stands outside the events but has special privileges such as access to characters' unspoken thoughts, and knowledge of events happening simultaneously in different places. Narrators also differ in the degree of their overtness: some are given noticeable characteristics and personalities (as in first‐person narratives and in some third‐person narratives; see intrusive narrator), whereas ‘covert’ narrators are identified by no more than a ‘voice’ (as in most third‐person narratives). Further distinctions are made between reliable narrators, whose accounts of events we are obliged to trust, and unreliable narrators, whose accounts may be partial, ill‐informed, or otherwise misleading: most third‐person narrators are reliable, but some first‐person narrators are unreliable. In a dramatic work, a narrator is a performer who recounts directly to the audience a summary of events preceding or during a scene or act.

Grammar Dictionary: narrator

A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's. For example, in his story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator a raving lunatic.

The one telling the story.

The narrator stood off stage with a microphone.

Types of narrator

A writer's choice of narrator is crucial for the way a work of fiction is perceived by the reader. Generally, a first-person narrator brings greater focus on the feelings, opinions, and perceptions of a particular character in a story, and on how the character views the world and the views of other characters. If the writer's intention is to get inside the world of a character, then it is a good choice, although a third-person limited-omniscient narrator is an alternative that doesn't require the writer to reveal all that a first-person character would know. By contrast, a third-person omniscient narrator gives a panoramic view of the world of the story, looking into many characters and into the broader background of a story. A third-person omniscient narrator can tell feelings of every character. For stories in which the context and the views of many characters are important, a third-person narrator is a better choice. However, a third-person narrator does not need to be an omnipresent guide, but instead may merely be the protagonist referring to himself in the third person.

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