Multiple Narrator Examples

He multiple narrator is one that combines different narrators They tell the same story from different perspectives. For example:

Claudia
When I got to the restaurant, there were a lot of people and I had to wait for a table to become free. A few minutes later, a waiter approached her and told me that he could sit at the bar. I agreed, sat on the middle stool and looked at the menu.ú.

Sergio
All the tables in the restaurant were taken and there were a lot of people waiting outside. The manager told me that some people could be located at the bar. I went out, saw a woman who was alone and told her there was room at the bar. She thanked me, went in, sat down, and when she stopped looking at the menu, she asked me if the boss was in that day.

• See also: First, second and third person narrator

Multiple Narrator Features

The different narrators that make up the multiple narrator:

• They can be in first person and be characters of tale Or the novel, that is, they are inside the story. But it is also possible that the voices of the characters are combined with
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  third person narrators, that is, with those who are outside the plot (for example, the omniscient narrator).
• Not everyone has the same knowledge about what happened, since some know more and others less.
• They narrate and describe from different perspectives or tell different parts of a story.
• They may be separated by chapters or by clarifications (for example, narrator changes are indicated by character names). But they are also often mixed up without any kind of clarification and the reader must realize that they are different narrators.
• In many cases, they are used to generate ambiguous or contradictory plots. However, at other times, they are used to create suspense or an intrigue, which is resolved when a narrator reveals a truth or relevant information.

Examples of multiple narrator

fragment of desolate houseby Charles Dickens

Two narrators are used in this novel:

• A omniscient narrator third person:

London. Michaelmas season has recently ended, and the Lord Chancellor in his drawing room at Lincoln's Inn's. Unforgiving November weather. So much mud on the streets as if the waters had just receded from the face of the Earth and it was nothing strange to find a megalosaur about 40 feet splashing like a gigantic lizard Holborn Hill above. Smoke coming down from the chimney caps creating a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot the size of real snowflakes, which one might imagine in mourning for the death of the sun. Dogs, invisible in the mud. Horses, little less; muddy up to the blinders. Pedestrians bumping their umbrellas together, in a general infection of bad temper, slipping on street corners, where tens of thousands of other pedestrians have been slipping and falling ever since. dawned (if it were possible to say that it has dawned) and add new sediments to the superimposed crusts of mud, which at these points sticks tenaciously to the pavement and accumulates at interest compound.

• A protagonist narrator in first person who is a character (Esther Summerson) in the story:

It is very difficult for me to start writing my part of these pages, knowing that I am not smart. I have always known. I remember that when she was very little she used to say to my little doll, when we were alone:
"Come on, Dolly, you know perfectly well that I'm not very smart, and you have to be good and bear with me!" And she would sit in a big chair, with such a pretty complexion and rosy lips, contemplating me, or rather contemplating nothingness, while I occupied myself with my tasks and told him each of my secrets

fragment of wuthering heightsby Emily Bronte.

In this novel two narrators are combined:

• A first person narrator(Mr. Lockwood) who introduces and adds information about the story:

The housekeeper returned promptly, bringing a steaming bowl and a sewing kit. She placed the vase on the mantelpiece and sat down with an air of satisfaction, no doubt motivated to find such a trustworthy gentleman.

• A witness narrator in first person who tells the plot and who is a secondary character (Nelly):

Before I settled here," she began, without waiting for me to invite her back to tell me the story, "I lived almost always in "Wuthering Heights." My mother had raised Hindley Earnshaw, Hareton's father, and I used to play with the children. I was all over the farm, helping with the chores and doing the errands that were ordered. One fine summer morning--I remember the harvest was about to begin--Mr. Earnshaw, the old master, came downstairs in his journey, he gave instructions to José about the tasks of the day, and turning to Hindley, Catherine and me, who were having breakfast together, he asked his son:
"What do you want me to bring you from Liverpool, little one?" He chooses what you want, as long as it's not too bulky, because I have to walk there and back, and it's sixty miles to walk...
Hindley asked him for a violin, and Catherine, who, although she was not yet six years old, already knew how to ride all the horses in the stable, asked him for a whip. To me, the Lord promised to bring me pears and apples. It was good, if somewhat severe.

Fragment of "Jacob and the other", by Juan Carlos Onetti.

Three narrators are combined in this tale:

• A first person narratorwho is a character in the story

1. The doctor tells

Half the city should have been at the Cine Apolo last night, watching the thing and also participating in the tumultuous finale. I was getting bored at the club's poker table and only intervened when the doorman announced the urgent call from the hospital. The club has only one telephone line; but when I left the cabin everyone knew the news much better than I did. I went back to the table to change the chips and pay for the lost boxes.

• A omniscient narrator third person:

2. the narrator tells

The cards said Comendador Orsini and the talkative and restless man distributed them without greed throughout the city. Copies are preserved, some of them autographed and with adjectives.
From the first —and last— Sunday, Orsini rented the Apolo room for the training sessions, at one peso per ticket on Monday and Tuesday, at half on Wednesday, to two pesos on Thursday and Friday, when the challenge was formalized and the curiosity and patriotism of the Sanmarianos began to fill the Apollo.

• A protagonist narrator in first person who is one of the main characters (Orsini) of the story:

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The sun was already licking the leg of the table and I sadly thought that nothing could be saved from the shipwreck. At least —I was beginning to remember—, that was what should be thought and my face and my words should adjust to that sadness. Van Oppen foresaw something because he made me swallow a glass of orange juice and put a lit cigarette in my mouth.
It was Saturday morning, we were still in Santa María. I shook my head and looked at him, I made a quick balance of the smile, the joy and the friendship. He had put on the light gray suit, the antelope shoes, balanced the Stetson on the back of his neck. I suddenly thought that he was right, that ultimately life is always right, regardless of victories or defeats.

fragment of draculaby Bram Stoker.

In this novel, different narrators are combined who are characters from the story and who appear through letters, telegrams, newspapers and blogs. For example:

• A first person narratorwho is a character (Jonathan Harker) in the story:

I.- FROM JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY

Bistritz, May 3. I left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on the first of May, arrived in Vienna early the next morning; I should have arrived at six forty-six; the train was an hour late. Budapest seems like a wonderful place, judging from the little I got to see of her from the train and the little walk I took through the streets of her. I was afraid to go too far from the station, since, as we had arrived late, we would leave as close as possible to the appointed time.

• A second person narratorwho is a character (Agatha) in the story:

Letter from Sister Agatha, Hospital of Saint Joseph and Saint Mary, in Budapest, to Miss Willhelmina Murray

August 12
Dear miss:
I write to you at the wishes of Mr. Jonathan Harker, since he himself is not strong enough to write, although he is improving thanks to God, Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary. He has been in our care for almost six weeks, as he is suffering from a violent brain fever. He sends you his love, and begs me to tell you that by this very courier I am writing to Mr. Peter Hawkins, at Exeter, to tell him, with the deepest respect, that he is very sorry for his delay, and that all his work has been completely finished.

Fragment of "La Señorita Cora", by Julio Cortázar.

In this story, different characters tell the story in the first person, but it is not indicated in which part the narrator changes, therefore, the reader must intuit it. For example:

• A first person narrator who is a secondary character (Pablo's mother, the protagonist) of the story:

I don't understand why they don't let me spend the night in the clinic with the baby, after all I am his mother and Dr. De Luisi personally recommended us to the director. They could bring a sofa bed and I would accompany him so that he gets used to it, the poor thing came in as pale as if they were going to operate on him right away, I I think it's that smell from the clinics, his father was also nervous and couldn't wait to leave, but I was sure they would leave me with him. baby. After all, he is only fifteen years old and no one would give it to him, always attached to me although now with long pants he wants to hide and play the big man.

• A protagonist narrator in first person who is the main character (Pablo) of the story:

The nurse is quite nice, she came back at half past six with some papers and started asking me my full name, age and stuff. I immediately put the magazine away because it would have been better to be reading a real book and not a photo novel, and I think she noticed but She didn't say anything, I'm sure she was still angry because of what mom had told her and she thought that I was the same as her and that I was going to order her around or something So. She asked me if my appendix hurt and I told her no, I was fine that night.

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References

• Pasto-Crosby, L. (1900). Dickens and Galdos. The multiple perspective. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Galdosian Studies, 2. 177-188. Available in: Proceedings of the International Congress of Galdosian Studies
• Tacka, O. (2000). The voices of the novel. Editorial Gredos.