Juan Barrios

Professor Leila Walker

ENGL 151W

12, March 2018

Narrator (Glossary Entry 2)

       According to Cambridge Dictionary, the definition for the word “narrator” is, “a person who tells a story, or a person who speaks during a film or television program not as an actor but to describe or discuss the pictures being shown” (1). We use narrators in readings, television shows. It is a popular form of Most of the time a narrator is used in literature. Authors use a narrator in their works of literature to create a different point of view from the characters. They are also able to talk or touch on moments in a way that characters are not able to.

       For my supplementary reading i was asked to read “Young Romantics” by Daisy Hay. This text is a perfect example for the word “Narrator.” This is a piece of text from the book, “Six weeks after the beginning of his sentence, Hunt was ready to receive visitors. His friends made their way through the dirty South- wark streets and the prison’s dark corridors to find him settled in a riot of colour and comfort” (Hay 23). This piece of text exhibits narration. There is someone other than the character speaking through the dialogue. Here the narrator is explaining what Hunt is experiencing in the text. Sometimes in literary texts, we do not know who the narrator is or their gender. When the narrator states their name and we know the origin of them in a text, it is probably because the character is narrating their own story or a story of someone whom they know in the text. It is also the character who tells you what is happening in a book or film. Narration is mostly used in fiction stories, memoirs and elegies.

Works Cited

 Hay, Daisy. Young Romantics: the Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives. Bloomsbury, 2010.

“Narrator | Definition of Narrator in English by The Cambridge Dictionary.” Cambridge Dictionaries | English, Cambridge Dictionaries, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/narrator