Analyzing and decoding narrative

A narrative or a story is a construct created in a constructive forman, ( written, spoken, poetry, prose, images, song, theater or dance ) that describe a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. It derives from a latin verb narrare, which meant "to recount".

The word story may be used as a synonym of "narrative", but can also be used to refer to the sequence of events described in a narrative. A narrative can also be told by a character within a larger narrative. An important part of narration is the narrative mode. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode where by the narrator communicates directly to the reader.

Stories are an important part of culture and have a long history. The first documented stories where in the form of cave paintings. Storytelling was probably one of the earliest forms of entertainment.

In semiotics and literary theory, a "narrative" is a story or part of a story. It may be spoken, written or imagined, and it will have one or more points of view representing some or all of the participants or observers.

When the content is fictional, different conventions apply. The text projects a narrative voice, but the narrator belongs to an invented or imaginary world, not the real one. The narrator maybe one of the characters in the story. This is case in my story. We are seeing the world of the story through her eyes, She is the one telling us how things happened, or how she or people around her react. She is also the one telling us, through her knowledge and experience what is wrong or right, what is good or bad.

Roland Barthes describes such characters as "paper beings" and fiction comprises their narratives of personal experience a created by the author. When their thoughts are included this is termed interival focalisation: when each characters mind focuses on a particular event, the text reflects his or her reactions.

In written forms, the reader hears the narrators voice both through the voice of content and the style - the author can encode voices for different emotions and situations. In my story the narrator observes and reports the events and the feelings of others . This is because she, being not a human does not have authentic, original feelings, but reflects the feelings of others, feels what she is "supposed" to feel in a certain situation. This is called a homodiegetic narrator, a person describing his or her personal and subjective experiences as a character in the story.

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