Short answers, pulled from the story.
A narrator is the specific person or literary voice that delivers information to an audience through written or spoken commentary. This entity serves as the primary vehicle for conveying plot details in all written stories including novels, short stories, poems, and memoirs.
Gérard Genette distinguished between intradiegetic and extradiegetic narrative when analyzing the position of the storyteller relative to the story itself. Boris Uspenskij identified five planes where point of view expresses itself within any artistic text.
Suzanne Collins used present tense for her Hunger Games trilogy to heighten the feeling of ongoing action. Present tense depicts events occurring in the narrator's immediate now creating a sense of immediacy for the audience.
James Joyce exemplified this style in his novel Ulysses while William Faulkner applied similar techniques in The Sound and the Fury. Stream-of-consciousness writing attempts to replicate the actual thought processes of a character rather than just their spoken words.
An Irish storyteller from 1935 framed one story inside another while working as a smith fixing a sword for a customer. Elders within Indigenous American communities tell narratives together so that no single story remains static over time.