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Oroonoko In Oroonoko by Aphra Behn the narrator is also a participant in the action of the story. Behn uses the first person to tell the story however; she and the narrator exist as two separate entities. The narrator of Oroonoko is not important so much as a catalyst to the action of the story but for her relationship to Oroonoko, her ability to tell his story and her representation of colonial slave trade. The …

…vises such as comparison and pity to make reader understand and value Oroonoko’s story. The narrator’s main role in the story of Oroonoko’s life is not as a participant but as a friend and storyteller. She states that "by reputation of her pen" she has the authority to tell Oroonoko’s story (Norton 2215). With that authority the narrator expresses a tale of a man she viewed a hero.