ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Reports, Scoville Scale, Qualia
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Narrative is one of the basic ways in human beings think. Used in art, law, politics, therapy and counselling, negotiation, medicine, business, etc. How we organize our individual experiences in time. The words, narrative and story are often used as synonyms; this is incorrect. Understanding story is key to understanding narrative. Novels, poems, scientific reports, films, songs, photos, painting, etc. All stories are texts; not all texts are stories. Tellability: usually about something unusual/unexpected; worth telling about. A story about an unnamed man and young girl. They are in an eerie room together and the girl suddenly locks the door and then vanished, leaving the man stuck. We can assume that the girl is a ghost. Sequence: girl locks the door and vanished, leaving the man trapped. Tellability: girl is evidently a ghost; this is something unusual, therefore worth telling a story about.
