The Importance of Narrative (Blog 2A)

Narrative is such a broad topic, because there are so many things that go into it. Some of those things include, Story Grammers, Setting, Plot, Theme, Character and Graphs. It is an important form of writing, because it helps us to better prove our point in an argument, or to help us explain something to someone else. By telling a story we have a much easier time explaining things and even getting our point across. One of the essential elements to narrative that I would like to discuss is the characters. The characters are a very important piece to a story, not only do they tell us who the story is about, or who was involved in the events taking place, but they have a major effect on how everything plays out as well. Characters can have an effect on the setting, the plot and even the theme or mood of the story based on their actions and their personalities. They can even change the story completely just by how they come into the story.

For example, if the story is set with a man sitting out on the ocean on a surf board waiting to catch a wave. Looking at the beautiful white sandy beach, listening to the waves crash around him, and feeling that warm ocean breeze on his face. Those of us sitting here in snowy Utah might be jealous. But then the author introduced a new character into the scene. This character happens to be a great big shark swimming silently underneath this man waiting for the opportune moment to attack, we no longer envy this man but are just grateful that it is not us sitting there. As you can see characters can have a great effect on the story even down to how we the reader feel about the story and the things that we take away from it.