Understanding Narrative Gender and Its Components

Gender Narrative and Its Components

Gender narrative is one in which a narrator tells the story of one or more characters in a specific space and time.

Components

Narrator: This is the voice that tells the narrative story, reporting the facts to the reader.

Points of View

• Omniscient: Knows everything, even the intimate thoughts of the characters. Values events and expresses their views.
• Witness: Objectively describes what they see, without opinion or rating.
• Narrator as Character: A character is considered a narrator. They can be a single character, several (multiple), or the protagonist.

Plot: Various events happen that form the fabric.

Types of Plots

• Real: Acts that occurred objectively.
• Fictional: Fictional stories.
• Plausible: Credible, respecting logic.
• Implausible: Illogical events.

Plot Structure

1. Approach: The action in a time and place, and the presentation of characters.
2. Knot: Alters the approach and creates a problem.
3. Action: Occurring incidents that trigger characters.
4. Outcome: Ends with the resolution of the problem.

Types of Outcomes

• Closed: The ending is clear.
• Open: The ending allows for various interpretations.

The structure can be chronological or have jumps in time (flashbacks).

Characters

• Protagonist: Carries the main action; may be heroic or unheroic. The character who opposes them is the antagonist.
• Secondary Characters: Accompany the protagonist and complete the world where the story occurs.

Characterization

• Flat: Pictured with few features that create a fixed prototype (hero, lady, traitor...).
• Round: Multiple traits that vary over time.

Function

• Actants: Relevant in the plot.
• Fugaces: Minor side characters, involved only once or twice.

Styles

• Direct Style: Presents the words of a character as they pronounced them.
• Indirect Style: The words of the character are reproduced indirectly.
• Free Indirect Style: The narrator takes over the character's words and removes the dialogue.

Time

• External: Real purpose of history, measuring the duration of the action.
• Internal: Controls the narrative pace.

Space

The environment in which characters develop and events occur.

Classification by Location

Closed or open spaces, rural or urban...

Relationship with Reality

Real or fictional spaces...