Narrator

the characterizations of the narrator as demanding and self-centered to indicate how people who value their pride over others tend to make regretful choices. The narrator has always wanted to have a brother who can play and interact with him like any other normal kid. However, his younger brother, Doodle, is born with a physical disability where he can’t move independently. In the beginning where the author and Doodle are at the barn loft near the baby coffin, the narrator states, “‘And before…

I believe the narrator in the short story of the Cask of Amontillado is Montresor. The story is told from the first-person point of view who is the protagonist and in the beginning of the story, the reader has introduced their antagonist named Fortunato who Montresor wants revenge on. Montresor meets Fortunato who had a couple of glasses of wine at a carnival. The narrator sets a trap that Fortunato walks into because Montresor tells Fortunato that he has Amontillado a type of dry sherry wine.…

The narrator in “the Scarlet Ibis”, also known as Doodle’s brother, has many traits that lead him to leaving his brother to die in the storm. The narrator only helps his brother to help himself, which makes him extremely selfish. When Doodle had learned to walk, the narrator explains how “Doodle walked only because [I] was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” He had taught Doodle to walk for himself “that pride, whose slave [I] was, spoke to [me] louder than all their voices.” He didn’t teach…

A Rose for Emily is about a woman who is living in a building In Jefferson town. After her father's death she was remitted of paying rent. New people took over and asked her for rent by sending tax notices. Without any response she started to hiding from people. Then she fell in love with Homer Barron, a newfangled man. Emily did not wanted to lose her beloved so she killed him with poison. After years she died and people found the man's corpse in a desolated room with an indentation of a head…

Joe and Tyler’s underground fight clubs soon spread throughout the country as their outlet for society-based anger captivates more unsatisfied men, including the audience. Unbeknownst to Joe, Tyler has been travelling around the country, starting fight clubs and giving each member of them homework assignments. From destroying coffee shops to defacing buildings, fight club is no longer an underground operation. Instead, Tyler has created terrorists out of distraught, confused men who are…

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick. Whether you've heard this famous saying or not, it seems to ring true. For example, when you were a child, you were told that Santa Claus is existent and that he's the one that comes down your chimney (if you happen to have one), place presents under your Christmas tree, and bite into the cookies and drink the milk left out for him. So you believed it because you simply suppose "My parents wouldn't lie to…

Death is the narrator in The Book Thief. Death descriptively tells us what his purpose is in the book. He tells us how he feels about the living, how he feels about the dead, and how he feels about life. Death is the only one who can do what he calls a job. His profession is taking the leftover breaths of the people who are barely holding on for their lives. he tells us what they do when they die, what they look like. Mostly what he sees, which are colors. He takes vacations through these colors…

omniscient narrator, and focus to bend the effects of the story to his will. First, as previously stated, “The Cask of Amontillado” is written in the first person point of view. This is used to produce a variety of textually borne emotions which naturally gives meaning and weight to different events. “I will not impose upon your good nature” (Poe 109). Through this phrase, said soon after Montresor meets Fortunato, the audience is pulled a different direction on what the narrator is going…

The narrator of Beowulf often compares the hero to Christ in several instances throughout the story, but also presents distinct differences between them in the hero's motives rather than actions. When Beowulf hears of the dragon that destroyed “his own home, / the best of buildings” (Beowulf 2325-2326), he becomes depressed, then furious and plans to seek revenge. When the narrator explains Beowulf's reasoning for his strategy, he describes Beowulf as “too proud / to line up with a large army /…

Life needs a good narrator. The novella The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is written as a flashback from Nick’s point of view. Nick has a relationship with each character. In addition he is observant and has a nonjudgmental nature. Furthermore, he is opinionless and not the only one talking. For these reasons, Nick’s character is the ideal narrator. This novella is written as a flashback from Nick 's memory, two years after Gatsby’s death. He clearly states at the beginning of Chapter IX…