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NARRATIVE (ROADMAP to writing a narrative (Critically evaluate your work…

- - - - Age, gender, income, culture, background, beliefs, possible reactions
- - - - It is important to spark audience's interest in a story
      - Stating facts is not enough
  - - - Chronological order: from the beginning to the end
      - Reverse chronological order: from the end to the beginning
      - Flashback/flash-forward: jumping back to the past or ahead to the future
  - - - Sensory experience
        
        Seeing
        
        Hearing
        
        Smelling
        
        Tasting
        
        Feeling
      - Setting
      - People
      - Events
  - - - Stating a thesis in the beginning (as in Bell Hook's "Work Makes Life Sweet!")
      - Stating a point at the end, building towards it throughout the narrative (as in Alice Walker's "Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling On The Brain")
  - - - First person (I, we) - emphasizes the narrator
      - Second person (you) - very rare
      - Third person (he, she, it, they) - emphasizes someone or something else other than the narrator
    - - The use of a consistent verb tense is important!