STORY WRITING or NARRATIVE

STORY WRITING or NARRATIVE:

A story or narrative is narration of a set of fictitious events often used to convey a moral message. Write the story or narrative either in first person or in third person. Usually past tense is preferable in stories. Use some dialogues wherever necessary. (ఇవి కల్పిత కథలు. సందార్భానుసారంగా కథను past tense and third/first person లో రాస్తూ కొన్ని సార్లు పాత్రల సంభాషణలు కూడా రాయాల్సి ఉంటుది. ఎక్కువగా కథలు చదవడం వలన లాభం ఉంటుది.)

Format:

Introduction of characters: It is done through dialogues or narration.

Plot: Description of an event/accident/incident i.e., what is going to happen.

Climax: This is the end of the story must be most interesting and unpredictable.

Theme: What is the message or theme the writer is trying to communicate with the story or narrative.

Steps:

·         Set the context

·         Introduce characters

·         Develop plot(s)

·         Reach climax

·         End the story

Useful phrases:  

1.       ‘Once upon a time…’

2.       ‘It happened so…’

3.       ‘Long, long ago…’

E.g. 1.  Write a story or a narrative using the hints given under.

Hints: Two cats – quarrelling for a cake – went to a monkey – broke cake into two pieces – not equal – monkey – bites larger piece – It becomes small – bites another piece – ate piece by piece completely – cats go away disappointed.

FOOLS LOSE EVER

                Once upon a time there lived two foolish cats. Once they found a cake, which is round and hot. They started quarrelling for the cake. They failed to share it equally. So they went to a monkey to get the matter settled.

                The monkey was very clever and it wished to have the cake by making the two cats fool. It wanted to eat the whole cake. It intentionally divided the cake into two unequal parts. It bit the larger piece. It became very small. Then it bit the other piece saying that it was large. It happened many times.

The monkey ate all the cake piece by piece. Nothing of the cake was left for the cats. They became sad and went away disappointed.

E.g. 2. Write a narrative using the hints given below.

Hints: A small grey mouse – old and wise – lives in a large grey house – a black cat in the same house – mouse goes to kitchen – meets cat – cat happy – mouse agrees to go with cat for dinner – wants to put on red Sunday coat before going – cat agrees to wait – mouse runs into a hole – never comes back.

THE WISE MOUSE

                Long ago in a large grey house there lived a small grey mouse. It was old but wise. In the same house along with the mouse lived a black cat. The cat tried many a time to catch the mouse but failed to do that.

                One day the mouse went into the kitchen. Unfortunately it met with the cat. The cat felt happy. It thought of a good plan to catch the mouse to make its dream come true. It invited the mouse for dinner outside the house. The mouse accepted the invitation of the cat.

                The mouse had some thought before it went to the dinner. It predicted some danger from the cat. It asked the cat to wait until he put on Red Sunday coat. It crept into a hole. The foolish cat waited outside the hole. The mouse didn’t turn up.

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