Equiscient Narrator Examples
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
Equiscient Narrator
The equiscient narrator he is the one who tells the story in third person but he only knows the thoughts, ideas and feelings of one of the characters in the story and the rest he hardly knows what he sees or what they told him. For example: She looked at her watch and quickened her pace. Today, at least today, she couldn't be late. As her heart raced and she clutched the briefcase, she imagined her boss waiting for him at the door from his office, sitting on his desk, ready to reproach him for what he had done the afternoon previous.
Unlike the first-person narrator, the equiscient narrator has the ability to provide the reader descriptions about the character, from an external point of view, and add information that the character unknown.
Characteristics of the equiscient narrator
Examples of equiscient narrator
- She put on her jacket, zipped it up to her neck, took the keys, and slammed the door. The message she received was short but forceful. As she walked down the damp sidewalk, in the wake of the storm that had raged hours earlier, she looked at her wrist to see the time, but she realized that she was not wearing her watch. She had left it on the nightstand. She looked out of a window and saw that it was almost ten o'clock. She raised her hand, whistled, and a cab pulled up. Once inside, she checked to see if she had the wallet on top of her. She gave the driver the exact address and asked him to speed up. To reassure herself she asked the taxi driver, who occasionally looked at him in the rearview mirror, to she turned up the volume on the radio a little, and she hummed until she got out of the car, three more songs late.
- It was barely six o'clock, but the sun that filtered through the curtains did not allow him to continue sleeping. She put on her robe, put on her slippers, and stealthily, so as not to wake anyone, went downstairs. She shut herself in the kitchen and, while the kettle was heating the water for tea, she leaned out the window, whereby he saw how the dew covered his garden, highlighting even more the tones of the grass and the flowers. It was cold, but the tea helped her feel less. She knew she was expecting a difficult day but she tried not to lose heart. When the clock struck seven, she went upstairs, she grabbed the clothes she had prepared the night before and took a hot shower, like every morning. Half an hour later, she was starting her car for work, while her husband waved her off from the porch with her cup of coffee in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
- She was fed up. She's fed up with cleaning other people's bathrooms, ironing husbands' shirts that weren't hers, and dealing with the whims of spoiled children. Every day she could bear less having to go to those succuchos that they installed in the gardens to relieve themselves, exclusively for those with a skin color like hers. She also did not tolerate having to travel standing on public transport because she was not worthy of a seat, nor that her children saw her future fenced off because the city university did not accept the mixture.
- As the scent passed through the kitchen door, he set the table. He seemed cheesy to her, but he put a white candle right in the center. He dusted off the record player and put on a jazz record to play in the background. He wasn't an expert on romanticism, but he knew she would appreciate it. While the meat was roasting, she finalized the details of the dessert: an apple pie that was her specialty. He adjusted the cushions of the chair, poured himself wine in a glass and leaned against the wall, while he looked out the window waiting for her arrival. He was nervous, like it was the first time he had a date. But she was special, she always had been. And, after years of working together, she had finally encouraged him to invite her to dinner. Everything had to be perfect or she would never forgive him.
- He doubted it. But he decided not to wear it. He closed the door, took the elevator, went down the fourteen floors, and greeted the security guard as he adjusted his hat. He was only two of the 23 blocks that separated him from work when it started to rain. First they were thin, barely noticeable drops. But as he quickened his pace, the drops became more frequent and thicker. He came to the office as if a bucket of water had been thrown on him, just before entering. He would never again go out without that blessed black umbrella, even if the radio announced a radiant sun for the day.
Follow with:
Encyclopedic storyteller | Main narrator |
Omniscient narrator | Observing narrator |
Witness narrator | Equiscient Narrator |