![]() Plot consists of things that happen, i.e. events. ![]() Every story features characters that do something, and the total of these actions constitutes the plot. Let’s take “Story” as the hyper-ordinate term. That’s why there is a switch between the two in the Beemgee plot tool. The Components of StoryĪ story’s events may be arranged as chronology or narrative. And that’s the easy way to remember the difference between story and narrative: if you reshuffle the order of events, you are changing the narrative – the way you tell the story –, and perhaps its premise too, but you are not changing the story itself. But the story remains the story – even if it is told backwards. Such works tend in their archetypal form to be closed narratives with a beginning, a middle, and an end.Ī narrative may present the events of the story in linear, that is to say chronological order or not. We are pinpointing the use of the term primarily for storytellers creating novels, films, plays, and the like. We are not referring here to open “social narratives” such as “the American narrative”. Like the term “storytelling”, the word “narrative” has become a bit of a buzzword. Note that we are talking here about narrative in the dramaturgical sense – not in the social sense. Author Choices: Genre and Point of Viewįirst, let’s state some basics as we understand them here at Beemgee: a story consists of events that are related by a narrator events consist of actions carried out by characters characters are motivated, they have reasons for the things they do there is conflict involved one and the same story may be told in different ways, that is, have varying narratives.While the point of a narrative is also that the recipient perceives the truth of the story, in a narrative this truth is conveyed indirectly. Narrative is therefore responsible for how the recipient perceives the story. It seeks to convey truth by simply telling it. ![]() It explains a state of affairs blow by blow, and aims for maximum clarity at every stage. A neutral, matter of fact presentation probably maintains a chronology of events. In this sense, a narrative is effectively the opposite of an account or a report.Ī report presents information in order to be understood by the audience immediately, as it is being related. Such deliberate authorial obfuscation creates a sense of mystery or tension, and creates a desire in the audience to find out what is happening in the story and why. ![]() ![]() A storyteller arranges the items of knowledge in such a way that they are revealed gradually, which implies initially obscuring the truth behind what is told. Each story event is a unit of knowledge the audience requires.Ī narrative is paradox, because it seeks to convey truth by hiding it. Narrative turns story into information, or better, into knowledge for the recipient (the audience or reader). A new event order means you have a new narrative of the same story. The easy way to remember the difference between story and narrative is to reshuffle the order of events. Narrative is the choice of which events to relate and in what order to relate them – so it is a representation or specific manifestation of the story, rather than the story itself. ![]()
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