What is Narrative ?

By

Dr. Nagy Rashwan Associate Professor of English at Majmaa University

Plot Structure

Plot Structure in more details

Narration , or Point of View: The Narrator

The point of view in fiction determines whose eyes the reader experiences the story through. It can be a key choice, as different points of view have different strengths and weaknesses.

There are three main perspectives or points of view for the writer to choose from Person (I) Protagonist Witness, Re-teller Person (you) Person (he/she) Omniscent Objective Limited

First Person Protagonist: For this point of view, a character relates events that occurred to them; the "I" is the main character, telling her or his own story .

First Person

First Person

Witness:The story of the main character is told by another character observing the events .

The First Person Re-teller: the story is told not by a witness to the events, but by someone who has heard the story from yet another person .

Third Person

Omniscient:The narrator knows everything; all thoughts, feelings, and actions may be related to the reader (or they may be withheld).

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Third Person

Third Person Objective:

The narrator can only relate to the reader what is seen or heard.

Third Person

Limited:The narrator is able to see into the mind of a single character .

Final Word

Literature is one of the most complex of all human products since it arguably involves nearly all of man’s capacities and faculties at once.

likely to always fall short.

So, continuing attempts to compartmentalize its general systems and mechanisms, in its various processes of either invention or reception, or worse still, in both, under stable terminologies and/or concepts, is What we have studied so far, does not even begin to scratch the surface of that infinite body of innovative and particularly informative human praxis called literature.

Good Luck Dr. Nagy Rashwan