Sentences with phrase «person narrators who»

Unlike her father, she has no ego, and doesn't mind how naïve, blind, or, most embarrassing of all, uncool she comes across in the narrative, which is more than you can say for other first - person narrators who don't think twice about manipulating events simply to make themselves look good.

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Instead, four people are left murdered by the narrator himself, who feels not a twinge of remorse for what he has done.

We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.

«People who have never been in Narnia,» Lewis's narrator declares, «sometimes think that a thing can not be good and terrible at the same time.»

«UB 2020: One example of the good things that can happen when one independent senator puts people first, not politics,» says the ad's narrator, who emphasizes the word «independent.»

But as he went on it became sort of more and more heavy and more and more and strain, and finally in the last sentence he said that the narrator of this review, the persona that he was putting on said, that Martin Gardner occasionally writes reviews under pseudonyms and one of the pseudonyms that he uses is blah, blah, blah, and that was the name of the person who was supposedly writing this review.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

Employing multiple third - person narrators, obscured quotations, and playful shifts in time, Trier (Oslo, August 31st) navigates lives in stasis: eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), a sociology professor who doesn't want to go back home to his wife and baby; dad Gene (Gabriel Byrne), stalling before a retrospective show dedicated to his late wife, Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), an acclaimed war photographer; and youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid), 15, living mostly in his own head, still unaware of the circumstances of his mom's death.

Hubbard's well - framed and exquisitely paced debut novel, set at an all - boys boarding school, is read with compassion and sincerity by Boyer, who voices a range of characters, including first - person narrator Alex, who witnesses his friend's drowning during a night of underage drinking.

Told in the first person by the narrator, the girl who first pointed out Tommy's «difference,» the story comes full circle as she musters her courage and stands up for him.

Sara and Dara, named for the Dick and Jane of Iranian children's books, are based on «real» people who the narrator follows around Tehran, and eventually confronts when one is about to diverge from the path he'd intended to write.

I don't think the public is aware of most of our awards, though — in general, I think those who most appreciate the awards are the authors and publishers, we narrators, and the marvelous people in the business of books: librarians and booksellers.

It's tricky to describe the book, partly because we don't even know the gender or real name of its narrator, but try this: there are, in the world, people who inhabit other people's bodies, who can move between bodies merely by touching them.

Kepler, the novel's narrator, is looking for revenge on the people who killed a woman whose body Kepler inhabited for a time; Kepler discovers that there is a group of people who have dedicated themselves to eradicating the world of people like Kepler — a mission that involves, naturally, killing the ghosts» corporeal hosts.

This is creating plenty of opportunity for people who want to break into the audio publishing industry, from narrators to sound engineers.

If you are writing in the first person (e.g. there is a narrator who tells the story «I did this» etc) then you will probably have less dialogue than in the third person (when the narrator is not an obvious person).

What this means is that even though the author and narrator may split audiobook royalties 50/50, the author gets a better return for advertising than the narrator ever could; because some people who are sold by an audiobook ad will buy the print or ebook instead.

A sentence like «High heels be damned, she ran down the street towards number Twenty - Eight» begins with a first - person narrator (it's the girl who damns the high heels) and then shifts to third (it's an omniscient narrator who describes her running down the street), which can jar and disorient the reader.

Amir, the son of a well - to - do Kabul merchant, is the first - person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist.

The second is the links the publisher may have, or can support, with film makers, comic makers, audiobook narrators, etc, the people who can take your book to new places.

You simply register an account and tell them about your book, the genre and what type narrator you are looking for and they will send you a list of five people who narrate the first chapter of the book, along with the price.

That's what I'm planning to do as the female narrator of my 1st person novel with the male who'll be doing all of the male characters.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens The Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter (4 - 5 different narrators) Kiss Me Judas, by Will Christopher Baer Lolita, by Vladimir Nobokov Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, by Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides (1st person plural) Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris (1st person plural, and one chapter in 3rd person) My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (4 different narrators) The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (2 different narrators) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

it's quickly established that Renee herself as the ultimate unreliable narrator, a person who may well be telling the truth or that could be reliving events that never happened.

Supergiant Games amazed lots of people with Bastion a few years ago, delivering an isometric brawler with an emphasis on the dynamic narrator, who offered live commentary on the actions of the player, no matter how wacky they were.

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are famous for having so little dialogue, but in The Last Guardian a narrator — who seems to be an older version of the player character, judging by how he uses the first person — will gives you «hints» at what you must do next, which is nice, but having the deathly silence interrupted by an unintelligible language is a bit distracting, to say the least.

The illusion of a real person was reinforced by mechanically generated shadows and a narrator who said things like, «He waits in his room, playing his records over and over.

Narrators are those people who are a user on the network.