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What is a story?

Book Summary   by:JoseCardoso     Original Author: Luzia de Maria Reis
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This abstract was translated from O que é conto
 
The story is a prose text in which the message in number of pages or lines. Presents as their higher quality factors conciseness and brevity. To produce, to whom the words, the effect of impact. This effect may result both of the unusual nature of what was counted, the surprising feature of the episode or the way it was counted. This brevity, however, can not compromise the quality of the text, which should fulfill its role with the reader with the same competence of longer stories. The story is the prism of its history and its essence, the matrix of the novel and the novel, but this does not mean you should, necessarily, become them. As the novel and romance, is irreversible: never ceases to tell the story as if it engenders, and it can not be reduced or no romance novel. It is therefore a clear narrative, univalent. Is a dramatic unity, a dramatic cell. Therefore contains only one conflict, one drama, one action, unity of action. All ingredients of the story leads to the same goal, converge to the same point. Thus, the existence of a single conflict, a single "history" is closely related to the concentration of effects and detail, the story bore the tours, the ramblings, the excesses. In contrast, requires all its components are galvanized in a single direction and around a single drama. For this sole purpose for which it should tend to fabulação, we can understand it considering the following: the sum of the objectives, partial and absolute, which we view life on the outside, could be a series of small dramas. The unity of action affects the other characteristics of the story. The concept of space is the first to review it. The place, where the characters move, it is limited in scope. The concept of space is immediately followed by a period of time. And here also notes equal unity. Indeed the events narrated in the story can be given in short time: since they do not interest the past and future, things are now in hours or days. If take years, one of two: 1) or whether the embryo of a romance or novel, 2) or the long time that appears in the form of short dramatic, because it involves, usually, the last of the character. The story is characterized by being objective, current: go directly to the point, no arrest was secondary details.
This jump objectivity in the eyes with all three units: the action, place and time. In the case of characters, few are involved in the tale, as a result of the natural features identified: the units of action, time and space. Just does not seem possible to count on a single character: even if one appears, another appears to be acting directly or indirectly, or will act in the formulation of the conflict that arises from the story. The language in which the story is cast should be objective, and use plastic metaphors short spectrum of immediate understanding for the reader; farewell is abstraction and all the concern or the tracery esotericism. The story is narrated in either language direct, concrete, objective. Among the components of the language of story, dialogue, and the most important of all, deserves to be mentioned first. The story for his highly dramatic padding should be possible dialogue. According to the different ways that present the stories, or the proportion that will be worked on internal drives, we can define five types of stories: the tale of action, is basically a story dominated the adventure, which does not mean the total absence of other components. It is a kind of linear story and less important than the others, although quantitatively more frequent, the story of character, is less common and totally focused on the examination of character, but never ceasing to follow the situation very doconto, to your unit; the tale of scenario is rare. The tone shifts dramatically for the space, the environment. This becomes almost the hero of the story, the tale of idea, although the writer is to use characters, conflict, etc.., It serves to show a vision of the world, ie a tool that aims to convey the idea, the story of emotion is intended to convey an emotion to the reader and generally has merged the idea.
Published: May 04, 2009   
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