Introduction, knot and outcome

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Everything narrative text follows a logical and coherent sequence when presenting the events that it tells us. In order to follow the story, it is essential that the narrative respects and complies with this narrative sequence, which is divided into three distinct parts: introduction, middle and end.

In this lesson from a TEACHER we analyze the parts that make up a narrative text: Introduction, middle and end with examples.

Index

1. Examples of INTRODUCTION in a narrative text
2. What is the KNOT - With examples
3. The narrative DE-LINK with examples

The main function of the introduction is present the reader with all the necessary data so that it is located in the time and place where the entire narrative plot is going to develop, in order to understand all the whys. In addition, thanks to contextualization, the reader can better understand the actions of the characters and identify and empathize with them.

The introduction is one of the fundamental parts of the text because, through it, we can get the reader's attention and encourage them to continue reading the work or quite the opposite. Next, we show you an example of introduction, the fragment with which it begins The Regent, by Leopoldo Alas Clarín, where he presents the city of Vetusta in detail:

• The heroic city napped. The south wind, hot and lazy, pushed the whitish clouds that ripped as they ran north. In the streets there was no more noise than the strident noise of the eddies of dust, rags, straws and papers that went from stream to stream, of sidewalk to sidewalk, from corner to corner flipping and chasing each other, like butterflies that seek each other and flee and that the air envelops in its folds invisible.

In this other lesson from a PROFESSOR we will discover what is the structure of a narrative text.

After the introduction where all the most important characters, places, times and events are presented, it appears the knot, which is the largest part, because in it the most important events that happen to the characters take place, which usually have a problem or have to resolve any conflict or win a battle with the goal of achieving ultimate victory.

In most works, the protagonist is victorious and solves the problem, but this is not always the case. Next, we are going to exemplify this part of the narrative structure through the knot that is planned in the fable of The hare and the Tortoise:

• On the day of the race, they both set out at the same time. The turtle never stopped walking and, at its slow but steady pace, it advanced calmly towards the goal. On the other hand, the hare, which at times lay down to rest on the road, fell asleep. When he woke up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw how the turtle had calmly reached the end and obtained the victory.

The denouement is the last part of the story, It is where the narrative ends. All problems are solved, all solutions are provided and all the enigmas previously posed in the knot are discovered. In addition to resolving the central conflict, the reader is also told what the fate of the main characters is.

According to the type of work, the denouement may be a closed ending in which there is no possibility to continue either be an open ending; that is, the fate of the characters or the conflict remains in the air, unresolved, in order to continue telling the story in a later book.

An example of outcome is the last paragraph with which you conclude Five hours with Mario from Miguel Delibes:

• There is silence. The boys from Carón with the coffin on their shoulders open the street among the audience and behind, framed by the lintel, Carmen is seen for a moment. It does not cry. From her He stretches the sweater from her armpits and meekly lets Valentina put an arm around her shoulders and pull her close.

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