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The Name of the Wind: My name is Kvothe.

Brain Jack: 'Right now, as you read this prologue, I am sifting through the contents of your computer.' The protagonist goes on to tell you that he tracked you when you bought the book, citing the actual ISBN number of the book to tell how he did it.That seems long enough, I know.' She goes on to tell the story of her life, beginning in early childhood and ending right where the book began. I'm 31 years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years. The speaker is Dinah, the daughter of Jacob from the Old Testament. My memory is dust' and continues in this vein for some time. The Red Tent begins thusly: 'We have been lost to each other for so long.I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.' 'My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. The Lovely Bones begins this way, as does The Film of the Book.The beginning of Robyn Manx's The Rebel is a bit like this.About half of House Of The Spirits is put together by Alba who eventually writes it down when released from prison.Hyperion Cantos: Endymion is written while the eponymous character is trapped inside a 'Schrodinger's Cat Box' and could die at any moment.I'm writing this all down so that more people will learn the truth.' Animorphs started every book like this, always including lines like 'My name is _.Moby-Dick: 'Call me Ishmael.' Probably the most widely-known example of this trope, as well as one of the most well-known lines from classic literature.Played with and ultimately averted in Tangled:.And I am the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, uh, uh, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand.' Little Big Man- 'I am, beyond a doubt, the last of the old-timers.The narrator of the Australian cult classic The Castle uses this line, completely oblivious that it isn't.'Hello, my name is Forrest, Forrest Gump.The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me.' A tricky subvertion to This Is His Story As He told It To Me that opens Tim Burton's Big Fish: 'In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth.The Lovely Bones: 'My name is Salmon, like the fish, first name Susie.Sunset Boulevard begins with an already dead narrator, as do its parodies.In Gremlins, Randall Peltzer says he has a story like nobody's, though it's actually the story of his son, Billy.Army of Darkness: 'My name is Ash, and I am a slave.'.The woman I've loved since before I even liked girls.' But let me assure you this, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl. If somebody said this was a happy little tale, if somebody told you that I was just your average, ordinary guy, not a care in the world? Somebody lied. Spider-Man: 'Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart.Grave of the Fireflies: 'In 1945, on the night of September 21, I died.'.Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself.' Inside Man: 'My name is Dalton Russell.I'm 42 years old, and in less than a year, I'll be dead.' American Beauty: 'My name is Lester Burnham.Is this too much? Am I going too fast? It's kinda what I do. 'So, I know what you're thinking 'why is that incredibly handsome hedgehog being chased by a madman with a mustache from the Civil War?' Well, to be honest, it feels like I've been running my whole life. If the story that I am about to tell is not truly mine, and I am telling the story of another person who is the main character of the story, I would be a First-Person Peripheral Narrator. Remember who I am, and remember everything I am about to tell you. The next time you hear a character dramatically and poetically introduce themselves at the start of a story, begging you to listen, remember me. It may save your life, even if it can no longer save mine. Just trust me when I say that you need to listen to me. I'm not telling you this because I want credit for my story, but because my story needs to be told. I will stand my ground until my final breath. I will not let them take me into the darkness quite yet. I am an old and tired trope, used and abused more times than I can remember, yet I have persevered. I may even already be dead right now.įor decades, I have been used as a dramatic way to open stories, to grab the reader's attention and make them take things seriously. By the time you get this message, I might already be dead. I'm here today to tell you everything I know, before it's too late. But chances are you have seen me before, a silent face in the crowd, never guessing my true nature, never knowing what I really am. Perhaps you've even used me once or twice. I am a trope, one of the oldest of my kind.

You just know my name not my story quotes