Narration:
Recounting Events
IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL LEARN TO
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he photograph here shows an event in Tokyo in which 300 Japanese women donned identical blonde wigs. Working alone or with a classmate, imagine the series of events that led up to the gathering. What happened, who was involved, and what did the participants do to get them to the scene shown in the photograph? Then write a brief summary of the events you imagined.
As you imagined the events that led up to the scene in the photograph, you probably described a series of events or turning points in the order in which they occurred. In short, you constructed a narrative: a chronological series of events, real or imaginary, that tell a story to make a point.
Narratives provide human interest and entertainment, spark our curiosity, and draw us close to the storyteller. They can also create a sense of shared history or provide instruction in proper behavior or conduct.
In this chapter, you will read narratives; you will also write narrative essays or use narrative in essays that rely on one or more of the other patterns of development.
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