Friday, January 13, 2012

The important elements of a Narrative

We have narrative structure to help us convey our point of view to the reader. We elaborate through narrative structure to help others to understand using imagery of the setting, time, place, characters, attitudes, plots, and themes. when we have one or two elements helping the readers, the readers can't fully comprehend what is going on in the story, argument, or essay. However when we combine all of these elements together, the readers can go more in depth with the writer on a more personal note. We can see the characters, feel what they feel, see what they see, and finally get the conclusion that the reader ultimately wants you to get to at the end of their narrative. In narratives you can also use flashbacks, and flash forwards to go back in time or forwards to help the reader understand the minor details that otherwise would have been left out. like an inside joke, you would not get the joke unless you were there at a certain point of the story in the past, or if someone flashed back and helped you along with the storyline.

In my last blog , the example of narrative that I used had all sorts of elements combined in it to get my view across to the readers.The character being a studious college girl, going to the computer lab to concentrate and do homework. the setting being her in the computers lab with rows upon rows of computers, and her being at the back of the lab near the library. The evil characters in their plot to break her concentration are the NUAMES kids cackling, and playing video games. The girl felt her concentration breaking, and wanted to yell at the skinny, slight, squirrely NUAMES kids that looked like girls. The ending to the story was that the girl just got up and left so that she could finish her homework at another time.In the end my mini story combined a lot of the elements to get my view across to the readers. As should most stories.

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