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How do you identify the narrator in a novel.

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laurared | 15:59 Fri 07th Oct 2005 | Arts & Literature
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If the author does not state who the narrator in a story is, and it is not one of the characters in the story, whom are we to assume is the narrator?
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If none of the characters in the story is the narrator then this is described as having an omnipotent narrator. That is a narrator who is not part of the action and who knows everything that is happening and can describe what is going on in different locations and in people's minds.
Are we to assume that your teacher came up with this question?
perhaps omniscient (all-knowing) narrator rather than omnipotent (all-powerful); this is still the most common narrative device in novels.

If it is NOT an omniscient narrator, then the author has to give you a clue.  For example....

She looked at me angrily and said, "Flashpig, I came up with that question myself!"

Then you know that Flashpig is the narrator of the story.

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