The Narrative Essay

The Narrative Essay

The narrative essay uses a well told story as the basis for drawing a conclusion (which is often called moral lesson).  The moral lesson can be explicit or implicit. For example a text entitled "Dangerous Adventures" would be a narrative essay. 

A narrative essay follows a pyramidal structure with the climax at the top and the exposition and the resolution at the bottom.

The main elements of a narrative essay are:

the exposition,

the rising action,

the climax,

the falling action,

the resolution.

The rising action, the climax, and the falling action together, form'the plot'.

 Below, you can find several short stories - in their original form - written by secondary 5 students. You can use them as inspirational and motivational tools.