![]() The narrator telling us what the character/s are thinking and feeling, rather than giving access to the character themselves.The narrator revealing information that the focus character/s cannot know.A distinct and consistent voice inflecting its own tone and often using literary devices a character wouldn’t use themselves.So how can we tell if a narrator other than a character is telling the story? We are signalled by characteristics such as: ![]() This may be the case in some instances, but authors can also choose to imagine and create a narrator with a worldview distinct from their own. Some would say this voice is actually the author, rather than a separate character. The reader is expected to understand that a voice, separate from the featured characters and definitely not part of the narrative, is telling the story. The invisible narrator doesn’t make themselves known to the reader. The difference between this book and The Book Thief is that the story revolves around Susie’s disappearance and aftermath for her family, effectively keeping her character as the central feature in her family’s life. I was fourteen when I was murdered …įrom there, it’s clear the rest of the story is being narrated through Susie’s literal god-like lens, as she has access to every character’s thoughts, feelings and actions. My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. Similar to the previous examples, the narrator boldly introduces herself at the opening: So while she’s effectively not in the main story, her presence in Heaven acts a ‘frame’ for the narrative. She opens her story by relating the manner of her death and revealing her killer, then moves into omniscient mode for the main story, where the narrative switches to her watching her family move on in life without her. This is an unusual example as the story is told from the dead, and the narrator, Susie Salmon, is in an alternative world – her own version of Heaven.
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