Narrative essay outline

A narrative essay classically consists out of three major parts: Introduction, Body and Conclusion

 As a narrative essay is dramatically different from other types of essays it has a rather unique, narrative form of the body which in any kind of narrative essay should include the setting of the story plot, a climax and the end of the story.

• Introduction
• Body
  
  1. Setting
  2. Climax
  3. Ending

• Conclusion

The body can have direct or reverse chronology (go from start to end of the story of in the reverse order).

Narrative essay structure

    Any narrative essay is a story which is told to reveal a certain experience and point of view of its author. The author should make a strong point throughout the story and prove it at the end.

• Introduction (The essay should be written in first person or third person. It is very good to start the introduction part with some sort of quote or a strong statement which will grab the reader attention and reveal the point, the true essence of the story told. The thesis statement needs to be in the introduction as it will give a special meaning to the story and will help the reader to “tune in” to the author’s mind).
• Body

1. Setting (It is basically the beginning of the plot. It gets the reader acquainted with the main characters of the story and its main circumstances. All the details are to be very precise to make the reader involved in the story. The reader needs to feel and see whatever the author has felt and has seen. The author does not simply describe the story, but he actually recreates it for the reader).
2. Climax (It is the top point of the story’s plot, a breaking point of the story. The language of the narrative essay in general and it climax in particular needs to be very vivid. The author needs to use a lot of literature adjectives to make the climax “alive”. The author makes a deep accent on the climax part of the story).
3. Ending (It is the end of the story’s plot. It resolves the conflict of the plot revealing the author’s message).

• Conclusion (Here the author does not only express his position clearly but he also proves it to the reader. The conclusion provides the reader with the writer’s profound understanding of the plot he analyzes in the paragraphs above. The last line of the narrative essay is as important as its first line. So, the author may finish with a quote or a strong statement which will make the story’s point transparent to the reader).