A narrative is a story of events or experiences that can be fiction or non-fiction. There are many different forms of a narrative. Narratives consist of novels, short stories, autobiographies, fairytales, poems, and many more. Anything containing literary work is a narrative. As Abbot states in The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, he states, “The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of genres, themselves distributed amongst different substances-as though any material were fit to receive man’s stories” (1). Narratives are a form of communication. As an English major I am constantly reading narratives. Recently I have read a slave narrative, a story about a slave in the 1800’s, children’s narratives and many more. A narrative consists of a narrator one who tells the story and a naratee the audience. We are all telling narratives and reading narratives for leisure, for work, or for academics.
Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Second Ed. Cambridge University press. Print.
Erica,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your contribution about narratives. I agree with the idea that a narrative can consist of many forms. With society today, it seems as though it is impossible to escape narratives. They are surrounded by us in this modern, globalized society.