This paper aimed to identify the instructions that help students to understand the effect of a narrator’s narration, deepen their understanding, and encourage them to apply the reading strategy they have learned to their reading activities. The study was conducted using Murakami Haruki’s novel Kagami as the teaching matter. The changes in the students’ impressions between the first reading and the reading after receiving instruction indicated that the students’ understanding was deepened by a focus on the narrator’s narrative, and they became eager to make use of the reading strategy they had learned.