Narrative

The importance of narrative in one's writing is to convey to the reader the picture that you have painted in your mind. We use descriptions of characters to envision how they look, show their personality, and to identify their co-existence with the the storyline. We use setting to give a little bit of background information, and to show the scenery of what is going on around the character. We use the setting to further make a connection with the reader. For example if we said someone was thirsty and they need a drink of water, you would just think that some everyday average person wants water. But if you say, The ever expanding, dry, and heated desert was too overbearing for the hitch hiker and he was going to die without a drink of water you would get a different image of the story. We use plot to send the story in motion. There always has to be something going on or the story would seem bland,and very boring. We use plot to take a course of action in the story, and we use subplots to give the story its twists and turns, so that the readers feel and experience that emotional roller coaster. Finally we use theme, to show how the characters tie into the story, and to show their personality, whether they are a good character or an evil one.

There once was a studious college girl in the computer lab. She came to this lab filled with rows upon rows of computers to work on class assigned homework while she  awaited the allotted time for her next class to begin. She was given dreadful tasks that she could accomplish only in a quiet area where she could concentrate. There she sat at her carefully chosen computer at the back of the room next to the library ready to work, when some evil little NUAMES kids chose to occupy the seats right across from her. They were a squirrely little bunch, Most of them were so skinny and slight with hair that was so long, you could almost mistake them for girls. They wanted to play "Video Games!". The next thing the girl knew, her peace and quiet was getting interrupted by the cackling voices of the NUAMES kids. The girl could not concentrate! She wanted to scream, and tell them to play their meaningless games elsewhere. But she couldn't do it. She finally just got up and left the lab to finish her work at another time.