Important Elements of Narrative (Blog Week 2B)

      We use narrative for several reasons. To argue our point, to explain something, or just to tell others a story, true or not. There are many important elements of narrative as I mentioned before. Story grammar, character, setting, plot, a sequential time line of events, and many more. But the important thing about these elements is how each one influences the others. Each element can completely change what the other elements bring to the story.
      The example that I used before of the story of Little Miss Helpful is a great example of how just one element can affect other elements. For example when Little Miss Helpful comes to help a sick Mr. Happy, her actions, and clumsy ways affect many other aspects of this story. When she wakes Mr. Sleepy up, this automatically changes the mood of Mr. Happy's character. When she slips on soap while cleaning his floors, this causes her to step into a pot in which her foot gets stuck, which causes her to trip and fall, grabbing onto the refrigerator door, which opens and food goes flying all over the kitchen. This definitely changes the setting from a quiet home where sick Mr. Happy is resting to a place of chaos, noise, and confusion, not to mention an over all mess. Then when Little Miss Helpful gets a pan stuck on her head, this causes the theme and feeling of the story to a feeling of maybe worry for Little Miss Helpful, and a sorry feeling for Mr. Happy who wakes up at all the commotion and goes flying out of his door in an attempt to pull the bucket off of Little Miss Helpful's head. The clumsiness of a good hearted Little Miss Helpful affects every aspect of the story as her unfortune unravels affecting all characters, and settings she comes across. She even affects the plot of the story when the reader thinks she is going to be helpful and she ends up doing just the opposite, and the entire expectation of the story and perhaps even the title of the story are thrown off. This story is just one example of how elements in narrative are all impacted by each other.