The Narrator Is A DICK
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Great. Great authors tend to be great professionals and generous open minded people eager to collaborate when needed, willing to recognize that a narrator can bring something of value to the table, and to trust us at what we do. Some authors try to direct with precise suggestions about how the work should be handled. Those are usually hacks.
Hill earned several Lansing State Journal Thespie Awards for his theater performances, which helped lead him into his second act as an audiobook narrator, through which he earned dozens of industry awards.
VICE, at first glance, is a strangely-named film. Most casual moviegoers wouldn't automatically assume the word to reference recent political history. But it's actually a reference to the vice presidency, and the film is about one of the most controversial figures to hold the office, Dick Cheney. It is full of historical figures of the last 50 years, including President Ford, both President Bushes, and congressmen like Donald Rumsfeld. But there's one non-political figure who features throughout the entire film, Kurt, the narrator. Who is the VICE narrator The movie doesn't reveal who he is until the end of the film, but his story is tragic.
If you want to meet the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, you need look no further than the novel's opening sentence. From 'Call me Ishmael,' the first line of the epic sea tale, readers are introduced to the narrator that will spin the story to come. The narrator is the storyteller in a literary work or movie.
Ishmael is clearly telling the readers about his own personal experiences. In this regard, Ishmael is also considered a central narrator. That is, he's telling a story that he's a participant in. In this role, he may also be serving as the voice of the author, Herman Melville, himself.
As the story progresses, Ishmael's perspective slowly shifts, and what the reader gets changes. Ishmael, though still narrating in first-person, has moved to a more peripheral narrator stance. A peripheral narrator is someone who is involved in the story, but is not the center of that story. In this type of perspective, Ishmael is reduced to a minor player in the story. Check out this example:
Early in Moby-Dick, we meet our narrator, Ishmael. From the first sentence of the novel, we discover that Ishmael is talking in a first-person point of view, telling the story as an active participant or central narrator. As the novel unfolds, Ishmael assumes a more peripheral role as a first-person narrator, observing what's going on but taking a back seat as a participant. Last, we see Ishmael in a third-person omniscient role, detailing action from an all-knowing, overseeing position.
This paper deals with an analysis of Ishmael, the first-person narrator in Moby - Dick. Next to concentrating on several aspects, it shall give an answer to the basic question: Is Ishmael is a reliable narrator
And then there's the first person narrator. We are hearing more and more of that lately with the increase in personal storytelling. The listener gets to know that narrator intimately, understanding through their words their motivation, their actions and their relationships with other characters.
The other folks are there but the narrator is running the show. As I said, that has worked for decades and the audience is used to it. But what if the narrator throws off the shackles of omniscience and objectivity and works with, rather than just presenting, the characters to help tell more of the story What if the narrator is discovering the story as it happens Instead of having an omniscient narrator you have instead a person who is bearing witness to an event, bringing us along on her journey.
In part, making the narrator more of a character is done through editing. Think of the way Radiolab presents its programs. Or Spark on CBC Radio. The hosts and the guests share the responsibility of moving the story forward. A little from the host, the next bit from the guest, then the host, then the guest, sometimes completing each other's sentences. That style in a documentary, in just the right places, puts the narrator and the character on equal footing in telling the story. The narrator is right there, a character, rather than an omniscient being. Doing the same thing all the time, no matter how good, can get predictable and predictability can lead to irritability. I get irritated a lot.
It ties the two of them, Dom the narrator and Darren the scavenger, together in the car. \"Did you say lonely,\" asks Darren of the narrator. It makes the narration an organic part of the story, not a separate track. Dom is taken out of the studio and put in the car in one slick and easy motion.
In this clip, Shannon Quinn interacts with her central character Rod Radford in a doc about community treatment orders. Rod has schizophrenia. A community treatment order would require him to take his medication. Shannon wrote some script but also uses official documents as part of her narration. And at one point Shannon leaves the role of third person and addresses Rod directly from the narrator's chair.
Now I don't imagine anyone drove off the road screaming about how a narrator switched from third person to second person and back with no warning. But it does provide an interesting moment of tension and brings Shannon deeper in Rod's world, developing herself as a character. Listen to how Shannon and Rod work together.
So the way I see it, just to say it again, the narrator is a character. That character can be an omniscient guide. She can be a bearer of witness. She can be a participant in the action. She can be investigative, delivering just the facts and introing and extroing clips. She can be on a quest. But it is worthwhile considering the role for consistency but also to develop that role into something that makes for a stronger documentary.
The second section of the prologue gives a more conventional overview of the story, as the narrator looks back on the events the novel will recount and tells the reader how it will end. This anticipation of the story not only creates suspense (we are immediately curious about Pecola and her father), but also, like the repetitions in the Dick-and-Jane section, gives a sense of circularity. This story cannot simply be told once and forgotten. It contains some central mysteries that its characters must return to again and again.
Ask a friend who listens to a ton of audiobooks if they have a favorite crew of go-to narrators. Some of our favorites lately are Susan Duerdon, Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman, Xe Sands, and Simon Vance.
Ishmael is the narrator of the novel, a simple sailor on the Pequod who undertakes the journey because of his affection for the ocean and his need to go sea whenever he feels \"hazy about the eyes.\" As the narrator Ishmael establishes him as somewhat of a cipher and an everyman, and in fact his role in the plot of the novel is inconsequential; his primary task is to observe the conflicts around him. Nevertheless, Melville does give his narrator several significant character traits, the most important of which is his idealization of the Sperm Whale and his belief in its majesty. Also, it is Ishmael who has the only significant personal relationship in the novel; he becomes a close friend with the pagan harpooner Queequeg and comes to cherish and adore Queequeg to a somewhat improbable level open to great interpretation; Melville even describes their relationship in terms of a marriage. Ishmael is the only survivor of the Pequod's voyage, living to tell the tale of Moby Dick only because he is by chance on a whaling boat when Moby Dick sinks the Pequod and is rescued by a nearby ship.
Plot SummaryThe narrator discusses his discovery of an invasion of Earth. The narrator warned the government but he was ignored. The narrator learned of this invasion by reading book found abandoned on a bus. He did not notice that the author of the story seemed to predict an alien race with immense powers, but on closer examination it was obvious on every line.
Alison Larkin Presents has always punched way above its weight in the audiobook arena. Larkin's narration of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen is the Number One bestselling audio version of Austen's masterpieces, garnering glowing reviews from The New Yorker and many others. Audiobooks released by Alison Larkin Presents have garnered 13 Earphones awards from leading trade publication AudioFile Magazine, and Larkin's best-selling novel The English American was picked by Vogue and Redbook for book-of-the-month honors. On Valentine's day, AudioFile's featured Audiobook Break podcast will start featuring her narration of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.Jonathan Epstein, the narrator of Moby-Dick, is best known locally for his more than 30-year association as actor, director, and teacher with Shakespeare & Company. He has also performed on and off-Broadway, in London's West End, and at regional theatres here in the Berkshires and around the country. He is currently Teaching Professor of Classical Performance at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota, Florida. He has been, for most of his life, an avid waterman.
Something I found especially interesting is that Ishmael seems to have completely disappeared as a character. If he didn't mention clinging to the coffin (and we weren't aware in the back of our minds that he was the narrator), it would be like he simply ceased to exist.
Linda: Absolutely true. He becomes a very passive observer, after really being a very traditional \"here's my story\" narrator in the early going. It almost seems like a convenience that at the end, it's like, \"Fortunately, I caught hold of the coffin and lived, which is how you're reading this book about a doomed voyage written by someone who was on it. Ta-da!\"
Ishmael, a crewmember on the Pequod and narrator of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, believes that the sea offers him an escape and refuge from the cares of the world and from his own anti-social and self-destructive tendencies. Sailing on a ship provides him with an opportunity for adventure, \"to sail forbidden seas,\" and gives him a true perspective of his place in the world. 59ce067264
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