Art of Story Telling
THE BOY ATE ORANGE !! Here’s an example of how a narrative can be built into a story. Let’s say we are describing a character that eats an orange. I could say, simply, “ The boy ate the orange. ” But what if I describe the peeling of the orange so as to capture what the moment is fully like for the character? The words we choose help us to bring our characters to life.Their own thoughts and dialogue work to do that to an extent, but part of the narrator’s job is to help those characters’ bodies/actions/minds take shape on the page. Patient narration, narration that uses the five senses, creates depth, so that as we read we pick up on several things all at once. A “snapshot” slows down and lets the eye’s camera go to work. So, what I might write in place of “Aarush ate the orange”: Aarush began to peel the orange he’d grabbed from the wooden bowl on top the kitchen counter. Just as he’d always done, he first removed the ‘Sunkist’ oval and stuck it onto his blue t-shirt. H