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Narrative Essay: Inside Out

August 22, 2019 Essays (https://bid4papers.com/blog/essays/) Lesley Vos (https://bid4papers.com/blog/author/lesley-
vos/)
What is a narrative essay?
How is it different from other essay types?
How to write a narrative essay so it would impress a teacher, or any other reader, and
be worth sharing and retelling?
This ultimate guide on narrative writing gets all the answers straight.
Table of Contents:
1. What is a narrative essay?

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a. Purpose of narrative essays
b. Characteristics of narrative essays
2. The structure of a narrative essay
a. Elements
b. Format
c. Structure
d. Language
3. How to write a narrative essay: step by step
a. Choose a topic
b. Outline the details
c. Write a draft
d. Revise the draft
e. Edit your narrative essay
4. Do’s and don’ts of your narrative essay
5. Narrative essay samples
What is a Narrative Essay?

A narrative essay is one in which you tell a story from your point of view or per-
sonal experience, providing specific and sensory details to get readers involved
and understand your point.
Why do we call it narrative?
Because you use a particular way of telling your story and explaining its events, known
as “narrative.” Here goes the narrative definition:
Narrative is a representation of your story, not a story itself. Let’s say you reshuf-
fle the order of events in your story: you’ll have the same story but with a new
narrative.
Beemgee described it best: (https://www.beemgee.com/blog/story-vs-narrative/)
Essay Outline: General

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Narrative turns a story into information and influences the way how readers will perceive
it. In other words, narrative builds your story.
So, your narrative essay is a type of paper, where you tell a story using a particular for-
mat and all elements of storytelling.
Okay, we know what you are thinking:
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Keep calm! Everything is much easier than it seems.
Purpose of Narrative Essays

Narrative essays are about telling stories to your readers. It’s their fundamental purpose.
You, the writer, tell about the personal experience but also make a point for readers to
understand why you tell about it and why your story is important to share.
In a narrative essay, you simply guide a reader and allow them to draw own conclusions.
You don’t criticize anything and don’t try to persuade them with arguments or prove
them anything. That’s exactly what makes a narrative essay different from other aca-
demic papers.
Let’s compare:
Persuasive essays Narrative essays
Purpose to persuade with definite arguments to inform
Mood rational emotional, imaginative
Style analytical, objective, 3rd person emotive, subjective, 1st person
Examples Essays in political magazines Personal essays in The New Yorker
Feel free to check our ultimate guide on how to write a persuasive essay (https://bid4pa-
pers.com/blog/persuasive-essay/) and see the difference between these two essay
types in more details.
Why write personal narrative essays?
Doing so, you learn to voice your opinion, views, and beliefs to the world. You learn to
express and share thoughts consistently and intriguingly so people would get involved
and inspired by your story.
It’s all about storytelling:
A human brain retains 70% (http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/why-you-need-

to-use-storytelling-for-learning/) of information through stories and 95%
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(https://www.inc.com/logan-chierotti/harvard-professor-says-95-of-purchasing-decisions-
are-subconscious.html) – through emotions; so the only way to make people want to lis-
ten to you is to tell them a story.
Source: One Spot (https://www.onespot.com/blog/infographic-the-science-of-story-

telling/)
And such writing assignments as narrative essays help you learn how to tell stories so
that others would listen to you.
Your narrative, if written right, is the best way to share views and make others see the
world through your eyes. It’s the best way to make them listen, broaden the mind, and
be more creative about own experience and lives.
The power of personal narrative is hard to overestimate. Just watch this awesome TED
talk by Christian Jensen! Isn’t inspiring and motivating enough?
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Characteristics of Narrative Essays

Important!
A narrative essay doesn’t equal a short story. It’s not fiction. It’s still an academic paper,
non-fiction writing about an experience that actually happened.
If you write a fictional story, it’s no longer a narrative essay.
Compare:
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So, the narrative essay characteristics are:
Informal, written in the 1st person. (You are a storyteller here.)

With a purpose to inform, not argue or teach.
Describes a person, a scene, or an event in details and chronological order.
Non-fictional, tells about the actual experience.
Includes the elements of a story but follows the structure of an essay.
The Structure of a Narrative Essay

As well as any other college paper, a narrative essay has its structure. But given that it’s
kinda informal writing about your personal experience in real life, it will have a format
and elements peculiar to narratives (storytelling).
Here they go:
1 – Elements
Every narrative should have five elements to become a story: plot, setting, character,
conflict, and theme. Sounds difficult at first glance, but what if look closer?
Plot: it’s the events happening in your essay (story). For example, you write about
how you learned swimming and describe what you did/how it influenced your mood
and swimming skills.
Setting: it’s when and where the events happen; in other words, it’s location and
time. For example, you learned swimming in the pool of your local school, in the
winter of 2013.
Character: it’s a protagonist who drives a plot of your story. Also, there can be sup-
porting characters. Thus, you are the protagonist of your essay about swimming,
and the supporting characters are your friends May and Jerry who went to the pool
with you.
In classical storytelling, a character is a hero who has to set off on a journey and deal
with all antagonists and conflicts to come back home with a reward or wisdom.
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Source: SlideShare (https://www.slideshare.net/prototypo/heros-journey-20150112)
It was Joseph Campbell, mythologist who developed the hero’s journey in literature.
Read his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (https://www.goodreads.com
/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) if want to learn the tricks be-
hind writing compelling stories.
Or, check The Writer’s Journey (http://craftywriters.club/reading/christopher-vogler-the-

writers-journey.pdf), the book by Disney’s screenwriter Christopher Vogler to reveal sto-
rytelling secrets behind all movie blockbusters. It’s a kinda practical guide to above men-
tioned The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Conflict: it’s a problem the character resolves, a moment of tension he needs to

win through. In our example, the conflict was the challenge for you to swim with
legs and arms together.
In literature, a conflict is defined as a hero’s struggle with opposing force. These forces
are three: other characters (enemies), outside forces (society, nature, technology, fate),
and a hero himself (his internal conflict).
In your narrative essay, feel free to use any of those three conflict types.
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Theme: it’s the moral of a story. What have you learned? What do you want the
readers to understand? Back to the example with the essay about swimming:
you’ve learned to swim; you want to encourage readers to learn new things, be
brave and not afraid of challenges.
To combine all the five elements into a strong narrative essay, make sure you follow the
format known as the narrative arc. It’s five phases your plot should get through to be-
come a story.
2 – Format
In short, a narrative arc is the sequence of the events in your story.
In details, it’s the chronological construction of your plot, and it consists of five compo-
nents: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Back in 1863,
German novelist Gustav Freytag studied common patterns in stories’ plots and de-
scribed a narrative arc as a pyramid:
Read more about a narrative arc at Reedsy (https://blog.reedsy.com/narrative-arc/).
And here’s a short description of narrative arc components, with Cinderella as an exam-
ple.
Exposition: it’s the introduction of your story, with the background informa-
tion about main characters and setting. Cinderella: awful life, evil step-
mother and sisters.
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Rising action: it’s the moment when conflict appears, a trigger that creates
tension and makes the readers understand what your story is about.
Cinderella: gets invited to the ball, makes clothes.
Climax: it’s the main event of your story, the height of tension, when the
protagonist faces the truth, needs to make a choice, etc. Cinderella: goes to
the ball, meets a prince.
Falling action: it’s the result of that choice, the moment of conflict resolu-
tion. Cinderella: time to go, back to the awful life but with the new experi-
ence.
Resolution: it’s the conclusion of your story, with a moral or point of view
you wanted to share. Cinderella: the prince finds her, they live happily.
If you want your narrative essay to rock, make sure you format it with all five compo-
nents in mind. Or, use three basic ones at least: exposition (in the introduction), climax
(in the essay body), and resolution (in your essay conclusion (https://bid4papers.com
/blog/essay-conclusion/)).
3 – Structure
You need to structure a narrative essay by the rules of academic writing. For that, use a
standard 5-paragraph essay format:
Write an introduction (the exposition of your narrative essay). Don’t forget to add a
hook, a thesis statement, and a description of your topic.
Craft three paragraphs of your essay body (the rising action, climax, and falling ac-
tion). Tell about the setting, the characters, events that happened, conflict, and its after-
math.
And write a conclusion (the resolution). Explain the moral of your story, why it’s signifi-
cant, and what the audience might want to do after reading it.
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Narrative Essay Structure
Example: The story by Jeremy Noronha (https://jeremynoronha.com/dropping-

out-to-travel-the-world/) on what can happen when you drop out of college to
travel the world. (Hint: nothing awful, but…)
4 – Language
More often than not, narrative essays are about personal experience and thoughts. So
you need to express them with a big voice for readers to believe your story. In writing, it
refers to language patterns and sentence structures, as well as your tone and ability to
“draw” images with words so readers could imagine themselves in the described situa-
tion.
How to do that?
Use descriptive language: consider synonyms, don’t repeat one and the same
word in every sentence; add modifiers (adjective and adverbs) to describe the
events but know when enough is enough.(Here go the examples (https://we-
bapps.towson.edu/ows/dangmod.htm) for you to avoid misplaced and dangling
modifies in your texts.)
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Use power words: avoid passive voice and weak adverbs. Often, a stronger noun
or verb can express your thought better than vague modifiers.(Here’s the checklist
(http://adverbless.com/adverbs-good-or-bad.html) for you to look over your adverbs
and decide whether to leave or remove them from essays.)
Use sensory words: they are powerful modifiers that help readers smell, see,
hear, feel, or taste the events of your narrative essay. Best described by Henneke
Duistermaat, these words work like magic for your writing.(Here’s the list of sensory
words (https://www.enchantingmarketing.com/sensory-words/) you can use when-
ever appropriate.)
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Mix simple and complex, long and short sentences in your narrative essay for
better rhythm. It influences readability, and it will be easier for the audience to follow
your thoughts and get emotionally involved in your story.(Read this example
(https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/373814-this-sentence-has-five-words-here-are-
five-more-words) by Gary Provost. See how the text rhythm changes when he
mixes the sentences of different length?)
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Stay consistent: follow the narrative arc of your story, and don’t tell anything that
didn’t happen.
How to Write a Narrative Essay: Step by Step

The process of narrative essay writing is not that different from other college assign-
ments. First, you need to choose a topic and do research on it. Second, you craft the
outline with as many details as you can and start writing a draft. Third, you revise the es-
say, edit it, and submit to a teacher for review.
Like taking candy from a baby, right?
Not quite.
Here’s how to write a personal narrative essay so that it will not only help you get a high
grade but also wow and inspire the readers.
Step 1 – Choose a Topic

As a rule, teachers give you the freedom of choice when it comes to the narrative essay
topics. And that’s the problem. You just sit and can’t come up with the idea of what to
write. Here is the risk of choosing the very first topic that comes to your mind, but don’t
do that!
The success of your narrative essay depends on its topic too. You need to choose
something both interesting to you and appealing enough to hook the audience. For that,
do brainstorming:
Ask yourself questions on what bothers you and what you’d like to tell or discuss
with others.
Use social media for brainstorming your narrative essay topic: what your peers dis-
cuss, what they share, what message you’d like to send with your essay.
Take a walk and think, think, think until you come up with an idea.
Try free writing: take a pen and a notebook and just start writing down all thoughts
that come to your mind. Re-read what you’ve written. Are there any ideas you could
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use as a topic for your narrative essay?
Here go topic examples. (If stuck with choosing yours, feel free to ask our writers for
help.)
Topics to Choose for Your Next Narrative Essay
Your experience Your childhood Your school years
Relationships Morality Travelling
Your interests Your student life Imagine if…
Experience:
– The most frightening experience I ever had.
– How I learned swimming (cooking, playing guitar, etc.)
– It was the moment I changed my life philosophy.
– The most embarrassing moment of my life.
– Why I’ll never support vegans again.
School years:
– My favorite subject in school was… You’ll never guess.
– Why my English teacher could be your best friend.
– How my best friend from school influenced my life.
– The day when my parents said no to my homework.
– I participated in primary school events, and I regret it.
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Childhood:
– My most memorable birthday party.
– Why I’ll never say thank you to my father.
– How I stole a cat that meowed on my dog.
– The only game I miss from childhood.
– The day when I cried for the first and last time in my life.
Relationships:
– This friendship breakup cost me a year of life.
– My worst quarrel with parents.
– The friend zone none of you would handle.
– About Cathy, a person I fear losing the most.
– This joke cost me the best friend.
Morality:
– It was the hardest decision for me.
– They’ll never call me a coward again.
– That’s why it’s okay to lie sometimes.
– How to treat strangers well if they don’t do the same.
– Are you ready for rebel acts for the sake of goodness?
Interests:
– The song/movie that touched me the most.
– The book character I associate myself with.
– The famous person from the past I’d like to meet.
– If I were a politician, I’d be…
– The superpower I’d like to have, and why.
Traveling:
– The place in the world everyone needs to visit.
– It was my worst trip ever.
– How travels to the countryside can change your world view.
– The best place for a family vacation.
– Top things to take with you to the mountains.
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Student life:
– The most exhausting exam I had in college.
– How I dropped out of college and what happened.
– The moment I’ve understood: college life put me in depression.
– This person influenced my social life in college.
– Why I decided not to enter university.
Imagine if:
– You had a time machine.
– You were a book character.
– You were born in a different country.
– You’ve become a superhero.
– You’ve wakened up being an animal.
Step 2 – Outline the Details

Unlike with argumentative essays, narrative ones are about your personal life and expe-
riences; so, you won’t need any specific research to support facts, arguments, or your
thesis statement (https://bid4papers.com/blog/thesis-statement-generator/).
However, you need to organize thoughts so you could make a claim for your thesis and
see if there are any gaps in your knowledge to describe all the details in your narrative
essay. For that, create an outline.
Here’s the sample for you to follow:
Narrative Essay Outline

(Sample)
I. Introduction (one paragraph)
a) hook and background information

b) specific moment that makes your essay matter
c) thesis
II. Body (three paragraphs minimum, but don’t limit yourself if the as-
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signment requirements allow)
a) the point that led you to the conflict (think of feelings and emo-
tions you experienced)
b) the actual moment (the climax of your story): write about ten-
sion, anxiety, or other feelings you experienced; compare them
with some universal ideas so your readers would understand you
c) the result (resolution): write about the lesson you’ve learned,
think of questions your readers might ask, answer them in your
essay
III. Conclusion (one paragraph)
a) restate the thesis and major points of your essay (back to

lessons learned)
b) think of a question or a call to action for readers: what’s in there
for them in your essay; what can they learn from it?
Once the outline is ready, evaluate the clarity of your topic and re-organize your
thoughts if necessary.
Make sure that your outline has enough supporting details to reinforce the claim and tell
a compelling story.
Step 3 – Write a Draft

Now it’s time to start writing and organize the content (https://www.contentkingapp.com
/academy/content-optimization/) of your essay right.
Divide your outline into three parts: a setup of your story, its main part with the climax,
and a conclusion. Describe each, following the course of events. Remember about the
narrative arc and don’t miss any details: readers weren’t there, so stay clear and “paint”
the picture for them to get involved in your story.
Oh yes, and write your narrative essay from the 1st person. It’s your story, after all.
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Step 4 – Revise a Draft

Once the first draft is ready, put it aside and wait for a few hours before revising it. Take
a walk, a nap, a cup of coffee, whatever. You need to abstract yourself from the story for
a while so you could evaluate your writing from a fresh perspective.
Read through your narrative essay and make sure it includes all elements of a story.
Identify where more details are needed and what details to remove so they wouldn’t dis-
tract readers from the plot.
Answer the questions:
Is my essay easy to read and understand for an average reader?

Do I involve readers in my experience?
Are my words descriptive enough? Do I show or just inform readers about the
events?
Have I conveyed the message? Will the reader understand the connection between
the event and its meaning?
Do I follow the structure of narrative essays? Does my story have a clear introduc-
tion and conclusion?
Step 5 – Edit Your Narrative Essay

This stage refers to finding rough spots in your narrative essay, proofreading it to avoid
spelling and grammar mistakes, and revising its language and style for better clarity and
readability.
When editing, use applications like Grammarly or ProWritingAid to check grammar and
spelling. Remove double spacing, replace misspellings, and rewrite too complex sen-
tences into simple ones.
Don’t use terms of many meanings. Delete all repeats: words, arguments, ideas.
Paraphrase where it’s hard to understand the sense and verify the citations wherever
needed.
Ask someone to read your essay before you submit it to a teacher. They may notice the
mistakes you’ve missed or share their opinion on your essay. It can help you improve
the story and make it more compelling.
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Do’s and Don’ts of Your Narrative Essay

To make this long guide easier for you to grasp, here is the short list of do’s and don’ts
to remember when writing your narrative essay.
DO’S:
Start with some provoking info to hook readers: a question, a definition, a quote, a
fact, etc.
Write from the 1st person. (A 3rd person is okay, too.)
State a point: what do you want to say by your essay?
Try to evoke all five senses in your essay: what you saw, heard, felt, smelled, etc.
Follow the format: include all components of a good story to your narrative essay.
Make sure your story has a conflict.
Describe events in chronological order.
Use clear and descriptive language: power words, transition words, short sen-
tences.
DON’TS:
Avoid slang, too formal language, and arguments like in persuasive essays.
Avoid second-person narrative.
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Don’t tell, show. And make a point.
Avoid writing about each and every movement of your character in the essay: spec-
ify key points that drive the plot.
Don’t format references the way you do it in MLA essays.
Remember that your narrative essay is not a short story. Write about true events,
don’t create fiction stories.
Narrative Essay Samples

How to Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps (http://bd.eduweb.hhs.nl
/es/How%20to%20Write%20an%20Essay.pdf)
Narrative Essay: Characteristics and Examples (https://www.nova.edu/tutoring-
testing/study-resources/forms/planning-narrative-essay.pdf)
How to Write Narrative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdxXdbtGRo) (video
by Jeremy Thompson)
500 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing (https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com
/2014/11/13/500-prompts-for-narrative-and-personal-writing/)
The Narrative Essay: It Differs From a Simple Story (https://www.slideshare.net
/AminHanif/narrative-essay-9946955)
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“How will you use the power of your own personal narrative to accomplish things
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Narrative Essay: Inside Out

What is a narrative essay?

How is it different from other essay types?

1. What is a narrative essay?

What is a Narrative Essay?

Why do we call it narrative?

Beemgee described it best: (https://www.beemgee.com/blog/story-vs-narrative/)

Essay Outline: General

Okay, we know what you are thinking:

Source: Giphy (https://giphy.com/gifs/idk-preity-zinta-confuse-8mndEBLsg9Whg2Sduv)

Keep calm! Everything is much easier than it seems.

Purpose of Narrative Essays

Persuasive essays Narrative essays

Purpose to persuade with definite arguments to inform

Mood rational emotional, imaginative

Style analytical, objective, 3rd person emotive, subjective, 1st person

Examples Essays in political magazines Personal essays in The New Yorker

Why write personal narrative essays?

It’s all about storytelling:

A human brain retains 70% (http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/why-you-need-

Source: One Spot (https://www.onespot.com/blog/infographic-the-science-of-story-

Characteristics of Narrative Essays

If you write a fictional story, it’s no longer a narrative essay.

So, the narrative essay characteristics are:

Informal, written in the 1st person. (You are a storyteller here.)

The Structure of a Narrative Essay

Here they go:

Source: SlideShare (https://www.slideshare.net/prototypo/heros-journey-20150112)

Or, check The Writer’s Journey (http://craftywriters.club/reading/christopher-vogler-the-

Conflict: it’s a problem the character resolves, a moment of tension he needs to

Read more about a narrative arc at Reedsy (https://blog.reedsy.com/narrative-arc/).

Narrative Essay Structure

Example: The story by Jeremy Noronha (https://jeremynoronha.com/dropping-

How to Write a Narrative Essay: Step by Step

Like taking candy from a baby, right?

Step 1 – Choose a Topic

use as a topic for your narrative essay?

Topics to Choose for Your Next Narrative Essay

Your experience Your childhood Your school years

Relationships Morality Travelling

Your interests Your student life Imagine if…

Step 2 – Outline the Details

Here’s the sample for you to follow:

Narrative Essay Outline

I. Introduction (one paragraph)

a) hook and background information

signment requirements allow)

III. Conclusion (one paragraph)

a) restate the thesis and major points of your essay (back to

Step 3 – Write a Draft

Step 4 – Revise a Draft

Answer the questions:

Is my essay easy to read and understand for an average reader?

Step 5 – Edit Your Narrative Essay

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