Eventually the narrative assumes a cartographic dimension: you find yourself "walking back" along the twisty sentences in search of clues, which are often hidden within perspectival photographs, displayed like little windows set into the game's giant, single page.
An adult narrative assumes that you are, like everyone else, the hero of your story but also your own worst enemy.
His signature primary-color palette muted toward gray, and his narrative assumed the crisp graphic quality of illustration.
A very different writer is Johan Theorin, whose fragile, glass-boned narrative style assumes an operatic scale in The Voices Beyond (Doubleday, £12.99).
The poll question adopts a "jobs v. the environment" narrative which assumes fracking would benefit the economy.
Narrative theory assumes that self-understanding happens over time, by linking and summarizing several events into a structure in order to make them intelligible to oneself and others [ 43- 45].
From these facts you might assume that this narrative has moved forward in simple chronological order.
He said: "It's a very tidy narrative to assume that we have this young Christian boy who was radicalised by these bogeymen-like figures - Anjem Choudary, Omar Bakri Muhammad - and while he went on this conveyor belt, as it were, of radicalisation and then the events of Woolwich happened.
fingerlakeswanderer praised Lidia Yuknavitch's The Small Backs of Children, which she says has gone straight to the top three or four of the novels she's read this year: She assumes several narrative voices in the telling of her tale.
This humiliating moment assumes a weight far beyond its narrative significance in the later film, as if it were something that the younger Mr. Van Peebles has yet to forgive.
