Narrative Paragraph

 What Is The Narrative Paragraph ?

Narrative paragraph is a paragraph that tells a story. The paragraph basically contains a series of events that are usually with a time sequence as well as other information such as the setting (state or place) of the event taking place and who is involved.

 

Type Narrative Paragraph :

- Using First-Person Narration
In first-person narrative (autobiography), the writer tells his experience through his perspective and is directly involved in the story. Pronoun (pronouns) used in this type are first-person pronoun I (singular) or we (plural).

 

- Using Third-Person Narration

Lead to what happens to others. This type uses third-person pronoun she, he, it (singular) or they (plural). The writer here acts as an observer or storyteller, not directly involved with the incident.

The Ways To Write A Narrative Paragraph :

1.                    Plan to tell your narrative from the first or third person perspective

2.                  Use a consistent tense

3.                  Create an engaging topic sentence

4.                  Present any major characters involved in the story

5.                  Set the scene of the story

6.                  Plan to erite a narrative paragraph of at least nine sentence.

 

Generic Structures of Narrative Paragraph :
1) Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

2) Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

3) Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending

4) Re-orientation
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists  of  a  moral  lesson,  advice  or  teaching  from  the writer

Narrative is that kind of discourse which answers the question “what happened?”. It is concerned with times, actions, and events in motion (Warriner, 1986 : 461). Narrative paragraph tells a story by relating a series of events in time order. Narrative includes all writing that provides an account of an event or a series of events (Eschholz and Rosa, 1993 : 55).

Narrative is also a type of writing in which the details or the ideas in a sequence of events or steps of the process are arranged on the basic time. The details are arranged in chronological order and transitional words or phrases expressing time, such as : soon, immediately, afterwards, as soon as, are commonly used, etc. The use of these devices gives the readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.

Narrative paragraph is used when we want to recount an event or an experience or to tell a miniature story. We relate the events in straight chronological order. It can be stated that a narrative paragraph is one of four basic types of prose, which tells a story by relating a series of events in chronological order. To narrate is to tell a story, to tell what happened.

To make a good narrative paragraph, first we need to including all the significant events, second we don't need to bring up un-significance points, third it follows a logical time sequence, fourth it doesn't drag on, its pace is brisk and last thing it has a point that can be drawn from the story.

Many writers prefer to narrate a sequence chronologically; that is as it actually occurred, starting at the beginning and stopping at the end. Others choose to recognize time in flashback. Here, the end of the story might be told first with the beginning and middle added on make the ending understandable. And there are other ways we can recognize time. We can build to a climax by crowding more incidents into shorter and shorter period of time.

Transitions of words, phrases or sentences are all important in narrative. We are familiar with such ordering expressions as first, second, third, finally, later, next, last, etc. We can use them to direct by her traffic in our stories. When we use flashback, we need words and phrases like: earlier all at once and so on.

A good narrative paragraph at least has four essential features.

First : context, we make clear when the action happened and where it happened and to whom.
Second : point of view, we establish and maintain a consistent relationship to the action.
Third : selection of details, we should carefully choose what to include, focusing on those actions and details that are most important to the story.
Fourth : organization of the events of the narrative in an appropriate sequence, often a strict chronologically with a clear beginning, middle, and the end.