After read the chapter six “Narrative” by Jonathan Culler, the author has discussed the importance of plot and discourse of a story. plot is considered as the fundamental element of a story. A good story consists of a beginning, a middle and an end. There are connections between one and another, which offers pleasure to audience since it is rhythmic for the order. And discourse is the term that can be described as various ways to display the story based on different sequence of acting. I am the person who loves watching TV shows, dramas and movies, especially those relate to detective and suspense. A good detective or suspense drama or movie is able to catch audience’s attention due to exciting plot, and sometimes they are unpredictable, which provides opportunity for audience to imagine what is going to happen afterward. I still can remember there was a detective movie that I watched couple years ago about a boy hid the fact that he killed his girlfriend, and a detective tried to find who was the murderer. During the time I watched that movie, I assumed that the murderer was another guy based on the beginning and middle of the plot. Then, when it came to the end, there was a reverse of the entire story that the murderer was the girl’s boyfriend. I was shocked since I thought he was innocent.

I totally agree with author’s idea that narrative is what the exact meaning behind the story. Because the function of narrative, the plot of story gives us pleasure, emotional resonance, knowledge and imagination. And at the same time, it also teaches us how this world works and how we look at this world in different ways. The narrative of each story can bring all readers to the world that is constructed by the author to feel and understand the actual feeling from those characters in that story, which provides the real life experience to all readers to make them more socialized and understand the operation of the true world.

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