The document describes the narrative structure and components of a story about a Princess, Werewolf, and Prince. The story has a closed ending where the Prince and Princess get married. It follows a single, linear plotline from beginning to end without side stories. As the story includes a talking Werewolf, it is considered anti-realistic or fantasy. Key events include an opening to introduce characters, conflict between the Werewolf and Princess, and a climax when the Werewolf transforms into a Prince.

1. NarrativeStructure
Charles Stick
My story is a story about a Princess, Werewolf and Prince. The Werewolf turns into a Prince
and the Princess and Prince get married at the end and live happily ever after. This means
that my story is a closed story as it has an ending to it and doesn’t carry on. If my story was
open it would carry on and on and would go more in depth with the Prince and Princess’s
lives. But as it’s just a fairy tale they tend to be a lot smaller and mainly have closed endings.
My story is a linear story. A linear story is a story that goes from the start straight to the end
with no turn offs or other story lines. You can see this in my story as it only has one story
line, it sticks to it the whole way through the story until the end and focuses upon the
Princess and the Werewolf the whole time. This technique is useful in children’s books as it
makes the book less complicated and easily readable and understandable for younger aged
viewers. The other linear is a non-linear story. This story has a complicated time line with
flash backs and forward jumps through time in the book. This can be shown in days and
years in the book. A good example of non-linear would be in the film‘Memento’, the effect
was used to show Leonard’s inability to remember showing what seemed to be a mixed
series of events out of order. This gets the viewer involved with the story as they are trying
to figure out what is going on as much as the main character is. The story is only one story.
It has no turn offs or side tracks. It goes from straight start to end; this makes it a Single
Strand story. Multi strand stories are usually found in more complicated books that are
aimed at the older generation of readers. It’s a good way to increase the size of the book
and the amount of content inside that will interest the reader. Since the story does contain
a Werewolf that can talk and is shown as an evil beast that lives in a dark hole it makes the
story an anti-realistic story. Werewolf’s are fantasy animals which is why it’s anti-realistic.
Realistic books are books that contain realistic content for example, ‘The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas’, this book was based around a real life incident that happened during the
holocaust in World War 2. Fantasy and Sci-Fi books are usually made up stories with scary
monsters and alien characters that are deemed unrealistic.
NarrativeComponents
For the beginning of my story I did use an opening which explained the location the story
was based and the main characters. This helps give the reader a better idea of who the
characters are, what role they play and how certain situations/events occur in the story.
Main conflict in the story is between the Werewolf and the Princess because she lied to the
Werewolf there for creating tension which then brought conflict. The conflict was used in
many ways but in my story there was smaller conflict used throughout the story for example
with an argument between the three main characters. The King in the story shouts at his
daughter as she did something wrong, this created tension and conflict. As my story is a
Closed story it has a resolution (an ending), the Prince and Princess get married and live
happily ever after. The ending is called the resolution as everything is resolved at the end of
the story so nothing else can continue. The climax in my story is somewhat near the end of
the story, this is because the Werewolf is turned into a Prince. When the Werewolf turns
into the Prince all conflict between the characters ends because the Princess instantly falls
in love with the Prince because of his handsome looks. This changes the Werewolf/Prince’s

2. fate as he will now live a happy life. The manipulation of time and space is used in my story
when the Princess is running back to the castle. I wasn’t going to make different pages of
her journey back to the castle as it would take too many pages but I did skip from the dark
forest all the way back to the castle. This saved multiple pages and it would have been
boring if I’d made loads of pages about her journey back to the castle. Enigma was not used
in my story I don’t think. Enigma is basically a puzzle in the story that the viewer will try to
work out they progress through the book or film. A good example of this is with the movie
‘Maze Runner’, throughout the start of the movie the audience is left trying to figure out
what’s lurking inside the maze. Once the characters try to get out of the maze you finally
see what monsters were inside the maze walls.