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Objectives. Understand and identify story elements found in a narrative. Identify and illustrate understanding of narrative structure via Freytag’s Pyramid. What is narrative?. Simply put, narrative is a story. It can be any kind of story found in any medium:
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Objectives • Understand and identify story elements found in a narrative. • Identify and illustrate understanding of narrative structure via Freytag’s Pyramid
What is narrative? Simply put, narrative is a story. It can be any kind of story found in any medium: a novel, play, short story, myth, poem, song, movie, an episode, oral story, a photograph, sculpture, painting, tapestry, digital image, or any other creative form. A narrative can be told on a microchip if you so desired.
How do you understand a narrative? There are many different ways and opinions. Mostly, we will take the approach of Freytag’s Pyramid* *actually Freytag’s Pyramid with some alterations by Mr. Whitehead
Exposition: The exposition is like the set-up of the story. The background information that is needed to understand the story is provided, such as the main character, the setting, and so forth.
Exposition- Smokey and Craig narrate the setting and characters in their neighborhood.
Inciting Incident: The inciting incident sets the rest of the story in motion. Something unexpected occurs causing the conflict to begin in the story.
Inciting Incident- the tesseract turns on by itself and Loki is transported to Earth from Asgard.
Rising Action: Rising action is a series of events and actions that move to story to a climax. During rising action, the basic conflict is complicated by secondary conflicts, such as obstacles and challenges that frustrate the main character’s attempt to reach their goal.
Rising Action- Peter Parker, after being bitten, creates a disguise and uses his new-found strengths to hunt down his uncle’s killer.
Rising Action- Meanwhile, Dr. Curt Connors experiments with limb regeneration via lizard DNA, transforming him into the Lizard.
Climax (turning point): The climax is the peak of the action and the turning point in the story. After the climax everything changes. Things will have gone badly for the main character up to this point; now, things will begin to go well for him or her. However, if the story is a tragedy, the opposite will happen after the climax; things that have been going good for the main character begin to go bad.
Climax- David, though a boy, has a moment of realization that he can defeat the giant Goliath.
Climax- After Bane breaks his back and imprisons him in “the pit,” Bruce Wayne recovers and climbs out to return to Gotham.
Falling Action: During the falling action, the conflict unravels with the main character either working toward solving the conflict or the problem getting worse.
Falling Action- After hitting an iceberg, all of the passengers scramble to escape the sinking ship.
Falling Action- Meanwhile, Jack and Rose, while trying to survive, attempt to escape Rose’s jilted fiancée, Cal.
Final Event: The battle, the face-off, the moment where the conflict is ended and it’s decided whether or not the main character wins.
Final Event- Jake, in his avatar, faces Colonel Quaritch in the AMP suit in a fight to the death.
Denouement/Resolution: The story ends with the denouement, in which the main character is better off than at the beginning of the story. However, the tragedy ends with death and sadness, in which the protagonist is worse off than at the beginning of the story.
Denouement/Resolution- Dorothy awakes to find that Oz was a dream filled with her friends and family, making her realize that everything she needed all along was there in Kansas.
Now Each group will receive an assigned step on Freytag’s Pyramid. Your group must identify what event from the novel fits in that step and then explain your justification. Then each group must add their findings to the Freytag chart.
4. Climax: 3. Rising Action: 5. Falling Action: 2. Inciting Incident: 6. Final Event: 7. Resolution: 1. Exposition:
