Sample 3

Ray Johnson is a narrator of almost exactly half of the Last Orders. He has thirty-six chapters versus thirty-six chapters of all the other characters. As he is the most descriptive narrator, the whole novel could have been told by him alone, with other passages serving only as additions to it. We get all our facts about the journey from him, for he is the only narrator of it. He starts and ends the story with the present time narration. All the passages about the journey are called by a name of the place where the friends are at in the moment. Ray's first narration, for example, is called by the name of the town, where they live and where their journey begins, "Bermondsey". The last chapter - by the name of their final destination, "Margate". This shows clear structure of the novel, its beginning and the end, even though the way the plot is told is not chronological.