Narrator

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Narrator

• The "voice" that speaks or tells a story. Some
  stories are written in a first-person point of
  view, in which the narrator is a character
  telling the story and third-person, where the
  narrator is outside the story telling it to the
  audience.

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Narrator

• In the film The Bucket List, Carter Chambers
  (Morgan Freeman) is the narrator of the movie
  using First Person point of view
• In the Nanny Diaries, Scarlett Johansson is the
  narrator of the movie
• And in the novel Angus Thongs and Full Frontal
  Snogging, Georgia Nicolson is the narrator of the
  book.

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Naïve Narrator

• An uncomprehending character in a work of fiction
  who narrates the story without realizing its true
  implications. The result is that the reader knows
  more about what is actually going on than the
  narrator does. An uncomprehending character in a
  work of fiction(a child or simpleminded adult)
  who narrates the story without realizing its true
  implications.
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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Naïve Narrator

• In Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump is the naïve hero
  who is honest and innocent, he doesnt understand
  the ramifications of his own observations, yet
  the audience does.
• Mark Twain's character Huckleberry Finn is a
  child and doesnt understand the world so he is
  of course a naive narrator.

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Intrusive Narrator

• An omniscient narrator who, in addition to
  reporting the events of a novel's story, offers
  further comments on characters and events, and
  who sometimes reflects more generally upon the
  significance of the story.
• Tom Jones (1749)

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Intrusive Narrator

• In Stranger Than Fiction, the main character
  (Harold Crick) reveals someone's going to die in
  a manner that plays with the emotions of the
  audience.

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Unreliable Narrator

• An imaginary storyteller or character who
  describes what he witnesses accurately, but
  misinterprets those events because of faulty
  perception, personal bias, or limited
  understanding.
• A narrator that is not trustworthy, whose
  rendition of events must be taken with a grain of
  salt.

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Unreliable Narrator

• An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose
  credibility is compromised. The use of this type
  of narrator is called unreliable narration and is
  a narrative mode that can be developed by the
  author for a number of reasons, though usually to
  make a negative statement about the narrator.
  This unreliability can be due to psychological
  instability, a powerful bias, a lack of
  knowledge, or even a deliberate attempt to
  deceive the reader or audience.
• An early example of unreliable narration is
  Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. In the
  Merchant's Tale
• The Sound and the Fury