What is narrative!?

Narrative is similar to story-telling but it’s more than that. It is because narrative can be anything. It can be a story, a picture, a commercial or even a sign. It just depends what the author want to explain and how the audiences look at it. Anything that can transfer author thoughts to the audiences is narrative.

“The story must communicate something meaningful to the audience,” (Herman). This quote explains the way between author, the story and the audience. Narrative can be defined as a way for human beings to communicate towards each others. People are more likely to think narrative is a kind of arts but actually as we have more and more methods to communicate, there are more and more different narratives.

Herman, David. "The Cambridge Companion to Narrative." New York: Cambridge University Press. (2007) Print.

Abbott, H. Porter. “The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative.” New York: Cambridge University Press. (2008) Print.