The Description Of Narrative Writing
What is
Narrative?
Narrative writing in fiction and non-fiction (and
even poetry) tells others the stories of our personal experiences and allows us
to gain empathy and sympathy about the world around us.
A narrative is the story (fiction or non-fiction)
told and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a
narrator, a character or series of characters, who tell the story. Sometimes,
as with most non-fiction, the author himself/herself in the
narrator.
Why Write Narrative?
Narrative writing is very important in your day-to-day life.
For the rest of your life, you will write texts, e-mails, cover letters, blogs,
etc. about your beliefs, your ambitions, information you know, and
feelings you have. What could be more important?
How to
differ from other writing genres?
First, the main purpose of this genre is to entertain through storytelling
and to engage the reader in an imaginative experience. Typical examples
of narratives that children will encounter take the form of fairy tales, myths
and legends.
Second, see the
characteristics :
• The
form of a story about an event or experience of the author.
• Incident or event that is delivered in the form of events that actually occurred, can be sheer imagination or a combination of both.
• Based conflict, because without conflict usually uninteresting narrative.
• It has aesthetic value.
• Emphasize the chronological arrangement.
• Incident or event that is delivered in the form of events that actually occurred, can be sheer imagination or a combination of both.
• Based conflict, because without conflict usually uninteresting narrative.
• It has aesthetic value.
• Emphasize the chronological arrangement.
The steps how to make a narrative writing
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Determine the first theme and the message to be delivered
- Example : Rapunzel
• Set the target reader
• Design of the main events are shown in schematic form the groove .
• Design of the main events are shown in schematic form the groove .
- Example : Long, long ago in a house that overlooked a beautiful garden lived a childless couple. They prayed to God every day to bless them with a child. One day they found that God had answered their prayer. They were at long last going to have a baby!
• For the main event in the beginning,
progress, and end of story.
- Example :
Long, long ago in a
house that overlooked a beautiful garden lived a childless couple. They
prayed to God every day to bless them with a child. One day they found that
God had answered their prayer. They were at long last going to have a baby!
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beginning
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Their days passed in
happiness but alas! the wife fell ill. She would eat nothing and the husband
was worried that she would waste away. He tried to tempt her with many good
things but she refused everything. “But you must eat something, my dear,” he
begged her. “There is a herb called Rapunzel in the garden next door. I will
feel better if I can eat that,” she said. The husband’s heart sank when he
heard her. This garden was owned by a wicked witch who would let no one
enter. But he loved his wife very much and so with a pounding heart, he
decided to go into the garden at a time when the witch was away. One day,
finding an appropriate time he went into the gar den. He had managed to pluck
the herb but as he was about to leave, the wicked witch came back. “You
thief! How dare you enter my garden?” she screamed. She threatened to put a
curse on him. He fell at her feet and begged, “Please don’t curse me. If my
wife doesn’t eat this herb, she will die. She is going to have a baby and is
very ill.” The witch stopped to think awhile. “I will let you go on one condition.
You will give me the baby after it’s born.” The poor man had no other way out
but to agree.
He took the herb to his
wife and miraculously she soon recovered and gave birth to a beautiful girl.
But as per the agreement the witch came to take the baby away. She took
Rapunzel—for that’s what she named her—far away and locked her in a high
tower. The tower had no doors or stairs. There was only a window on top.
The only person whom
Rapunzel ever saw was the wicked witch. Rapunzel grew up to become beautiful
with pretty eyes, a beautiful voice, and her golden hair grew very, very
long. All day long, when Rapunzel was alone, she would sing and weep.
Every day, the wicked
witch came to the tower with food. She stood at the bottom of the tower and
shouted. “Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Let your hair down!” Rapunzel would drop her
long, braided hair through the window. The witch used the hair as a rope to
climb into the tower.
One day, a handsome
prince was passing by and heard her sing. He fell in love with her voice and
unknown to all came to the tower every day to hear her sing. One day, the
prince saw the witch climbing up the tower using Rapunzel’s hair.
The next day, the
prince too called out to Rapunzel. “Let down your hair,” he said. The prince
climbed to the top of the tower. After that, the prince came to meet Rapunzel
every night.
Alas! the witch soon
discovered the prince with Rapunzel. She pushed him from the tower onto a
thorny bush, making him blind. She banished Rapunzel into the desert far
away.
Many years passed. The
blind prince wandered alone and finally reached the same desert. One day, he
heard familiar voice singing. Following the sound he found her. They hugged
each other in joy. Tears of happiness rolled down Rapuzel’s cheek. As the
tears fell on the prince’s eyes, he regained his vision.
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progress
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The prince took
Rapunzel to his kingdom and they lived happily ever after.
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end of story
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• Details of major events in the event details
as supporters story
• Develop character and characterization, setting, and point of view
• Develop character and characterization, setting, and point of view
- Example :
Character
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Rapunzel, the prince, the wicked, childless
couple.
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Setting
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Place : the beautiful garden, kingdom, the
tower.
Time : all day long, every night.
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Point of view
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The second people
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Example : ( . , / ? “ ! )
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Once upon a time there lived a lovely princess with fair skin and blue eyes. She was so fair that she was named Snow White. Her mother died when Snow White was a baby and her father married again. This queen was very pretty but she was also very cruel. The wicked stepmother wanted to be the most beautiful lady in the kingdom and she would often ask her magic mirror, “Mirror! Mirror on the wall! Who is the fairest of them all?” And the magic mirror would say, “You are, Your Majesty!” But one day, the mirror replied, “Snow White is the fairest of them all!” The wicked queen was very angry and jealous of Snow White. She ordered her huntsman to take Snow White to the forest and kill her. “I want you to bring back her heart,” she ordered. But when the huntsman reached the forest with Snow White, he took pity on her and set her free. He killed a deer and took its heart to the wicked queen and told her that he had killed Snow White. Snow White wandered in the forest all night, crying.
When it was daylight, she came to a tiny cottage and went inside. There was nobody there, but she found seven plates on the table and seven tiny beds in the bedroom. She cooked a wonderful meal and cleaned the house and tired, finally slept on one of the tiny beds. At night, the seven dwarfs who lived in the cottage came home and found Snow White sleeping. When she woke up and told them her story, the seven dwarfs asked her to stay with them. When the dwarfs were away, Snow White would make delicious meals for them. The dwarfs loved her and cared for her. Every morning, when they left the house, they instructed her never to open the door to strangers.
Meanwhile, in the palace, the wicked queen asked, “Mirror! Mirror on the Who is the fairest of them?"
The mirror replied, White is the fairest of them all! She lives with the seven dwarfs in the woods!” The wicked stepmother was furious. She was actually a witch knew how to make magic potions. She now made a poisonous potion and dipped a shiny red apple into it. Then she disguised herself as an old peasant woman and went to the woods with the apple. She knocked on the cottage door and said “Pretty little child! Let me in! Look what I have for you!” White said, “I am so sorry, old lady, I cannot let you in! The seven dwarfs have told me not to talk to strangers!” But then, Snow White saw the shiny red apple, and opened the door. The wicked witch offered her the apple and when she took a bite poor Snow White fell into a deep sleep. The wicked stepmother went back to the palace and asked the mirror, “Mirror! Mirror on the wall! Who is the fairest of them all?” The mirror replied, “You are, Your Majesty!” and she was very happy.
When the seven dwarfs came home to find Snow White lying on the floor, they were very upset. They cried all night and then built a glass coffin for Snow White. They kept the coffin in front of the cottage. One day, Prince Charming was going past the cottage and he saw Snow White lying in the coffin. He said to the dwarfs, “My! My! She is so beautiful! I would like to kiss her!” And he did. Immediately, Snow White opened her eyes. She was alive again! The Prince and the seven dwarfs were very happy. Prince Charming married Snow White and took her to his palace and lived happily ever after.
