Ian McEwan is one of the prolific writers in the contemporary period. He has published his novels under the strategy of postmodern condition. One of the features in postmodern novels are narrative structure. He is a controversial writer who gives importance to narrative techniques in his novels among other novelists. In his novels he has attempted to point out difficulties and possibilities of the characters and its settings. He has used narrative techniques in his novel to highlight the characters point of view and their strategies. At the same time, realistic nature of the characters and their strategies have explored through the techniques. Many of the themes and events reveal according to the strategy of postmodern narrative. Specifically, one of the novels of Ian McEwan has examined the narrative technique of analepsis in The child in Time. Here, analepsis has divided into two sections- internal analepsis and external analepsis. It has featured with third person perspective.