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Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.
This category contains articles about novels which use a third-person narrative structure; a mode of storytelling in which the narration refers to all characters with third person pronouns like he, she, or they, and never first- or second-person pronouns. The narrator can be omniscient or limited
Third-person narration: A text written as if by an impersonal narrator who is not affected by the events in the story. Can be omniscient or limited, the latter usually being tied to a specific character, a group of characters, or a location. A Song of Ice and Fire is written in multiple limited third-person narrators that change with each chapter.
Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]
The book is split into four chapters, each narrated in the third-person omniscient limited style; by far the largest is the second, which is limited to Waldo Brown's point of view. Following this is a chapter told through Arthur Brown's view.
"Pastoral Blood" is written in the third-person omniscient point of view, with Grace, a young woman, as the focal character. Grace is seated at her vanity table and suddenly realizes "she no longer cared to live." [3] Aged 19 or 20, she enjoys the privileges and possessions of the upper-middle class. In appearance, Grace is strikingly attractive.
Typhoon alternates between his third-person limited point of view, the third-person limited point of view of MacWhirr, and the third-person omniscient point of view of the narrator. Jukes' absent friend, the second mate from a trans-Atlantic liner.
The novel is told in the third-person omniscient point of view. [ 6 ] According to Italian writer Alberto Arbasino , Federico Fellini 's film 8½ (1963) used similar artistic procedures and had parallels with Musil's novel.