Narrative is the art of storytelling. It is a complex process with

important implications. Storytelling is a very natural part of our

being and in early childhood we learn basic patterns of storytelling.

As we grow older we are able to ?spice up? our language and

there-fore make our story more interesting. From an early age we

are able to recognise conventions that signal the start and close of a

narrative, to make predictions as to what will happen. We build on

these expectations and make judgements based on our bank of

cultural knowledge. We are more and more being socialised through

narrative forms. I shall deal with this issue later on in my writings.

The media are the forerunners in narrative production. They present

to us a range of narratives that have a centralised theme with

similarities and differences. The nature of media narratives and

their relations to our social situations is the object of narrative

How useful is the theory if narrative? The theory of narrative is a

very important aspect of the media. There are a few reasons for this

being so. Firstly, narrative shifts attention from the content of

Some topics in this essay:
, Lévi- Strauss, Vladimir Propp, Timon Pumbaa, Roland Barthes, Lion King, Tzvetan Todorov, Todorov Lévi-Strauss, narrative theory, character roles, action codes, narrative forms, theory narrative, 8 false hero, 2 hero, 8 false, media forms, person narrator, 3 donor,