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  • Morgan Freeman is the narrator of the documentary.
    narrator = person who tells a story and ties scenes of a documentary together
  • In the movie, Spanglish, a narrator (who is supposed to be a grown-up Christina) helps to put the movie in context by starting and ending the movie with an off-camera reading of her college application essay.
    narrator = an actor in a play, movie, or other performance who helps to tell the story by talking directly to the audience
  • A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR: I am haunted by humans.  (source)
    NARRATOR = someone who tells a story
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  • I can no more tell you what happens to her than I can tell you what becomes of Proust's Narrator or Holden Caulfield's sister or Huckleberry Finn after he lights out for the territories.  (source)
    Narrator = character who talks directly to the audience in a novel
  • He was in the habit of pausing for a cautious, vaguely designing chat with every hedger or ditcher on his way, and was especially willing to listen even to news which he had heard before, feeling himself at an advantage over all narrators in partially disbelieving them.†  (source)
    narrators = storytellers
  • Our only duties, as far as I could gather from our two rehearsals, were to enter from stage left as Mrs. Merriweather (not only the author, but the narrator) identified us.  (source)
    narrator = a character in a story who talks directly to the audience
  • The way the narrators portray Egyptian magic is also supported by archaeological evidence.†  (source)
    narrators = storytellers
  • The first line tells us that the street the young narrator lives on is "blind."  (source)
    narrator = a character in a story who tells the story to the reader
  • It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.†  (source)
    narrators = storytellers
  • But Tourteau was an excellent narrator, and he made me laugh a lot.  (source)
    narrator = someone who tells a story
  • If he had told the truth to his hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still worse, would have thought that Rostov was himself to blame since what generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened to him.†  (source)
    narrators = storytellers
  • Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they're more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story. Take Balzac. Whose story is this? The narrator's?  (source)
    narrator = a character in a story who talks directly to the audience
  • AUTHOR'S NOTE Much of this story is based on fact, which makes me think that either the two narrators, Sadie and Carter, did a great deal of research ....or they are telling the truth.†  (source)
    narrators = storytellers
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