"read the narrative" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used as a command or instruction to tell someone to read a story or sequence of events. Example: "As part of your assignment, please read the narrative about the protagonist's journey and analyze how it relates to the theme of identity."
"Elias wants to build emotional bridges between our nations, and to do that you need to let each read the narrative of the other.
At my former home in Washington Heights, I read the narrative of some unidentified young couple through the titles that accumulated in our makeshift laundry-room library: first "The Fertility Diet," then several months later, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," and finally a slew of baby-naming books.
We find that participants who receive a "natural resource description plus valuation" treatment donate a statistically significant lower dollar amount of their experimental earnings on average than those who read the narrative alone.
Show me the data, let me read the narrative and I'll formulate my own opinion, thank you very much.
Those more theologically inclined who like to keep God and humanity at an arms' length read the narrative as twice the distance that a bow can shoot an arrow, thus about a football field.
The common good would have been for the Charlie staffers to have read the narrative on Prophet Muhammad that the overwhelming majority of Muslims adhere to or that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has adhered to for over 125 years.
Fifth, while we believe the categories of cases we developed can be useful, other researchers might read the narratives and create other classifications.
When possible, we read the narratives in these cases and categorized each incident by hand.
For it is in the stills that we can read the narratives and characterizations that logically extend the pictorial and iconographic components into a widely-shared narrative space, replete with all their psychological, sociological, and political ramifications for the pre-femist mainstream American woman.
A dozen performers take turns reading the narrative, speaking the dialogue and acting out scenes.
The roles were assigned, with the author reading the narrative description ("Duke confronts Sarah with quivering lips, brandishing his hamburger").
