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Their accomplishments include launching the Big Cats Initiative, a global awareness program to protect lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, and jaguars .  \nObjectives To learn how to write a narrative essay To use connectors and time relationship words To understand adjective clauses  \nCan you write a story about a person who has done something inspirational?  \nWhat Is a Narrative Essay?  \nA narrative essay tells a story. In fact, narrative is another word for story. In this unit, you will learn how to organize and write a narrative essay. Even though the narrative essay has the same basic form as most other academic essays, it allows the writer to be a little more creative than academic essays usually do. Narratives can tell long stories or just a few minutes’ worth of excitement. While the narrative essay has a particular structure, narrative ideas are often used in different writing tasks, such as argument or compare-contrast.  \nstructure of a story  \nSeveral important elements make up a good story:  \nSetting The setting is the location where the action in a story takes place.  \nTheme The theme is the basic idea of the story. Very often the theme will deal with a topic that is common in life or human nature, such as independence, envy, courage, failure, and success.  \nMood The mood is the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the story. It could be happy, hopeful, suspenseful, or scary. Both the setting and descriptive vocabulary create the mood in a narrative.  \nCharacters The characters are the people in the story. They are affected by the mood of the story, and they react to the events in which they are involved.  \nPlot The plot is what happens in the story, that is, the sequence of events. The plot  \noften includes a climax or turning point at which the characters or events change. Just like other types of essays, an effective narrative essay also includes these elements:  \n• a thesis that sets up the action in the introduction  \n• transition sentences that connect events and help the reader follow the story  \n• a conclusion that ends the story action and provides a moral, prediction, or revelation  \n40 Unit 2 • Narrative Essays  \nthe introduction  \nThe introduction of a narrative essay is the paragraph that begins your story. In the introduction, you describe the setting, introduce the characters, and prepare your audience for the action to come. Of course, the introduction should have a hook and a thesis.  \nThe Narrative Hook  \nYou learned in Unit 1 that the hook in an essay is the part of the introduction—usually the first few sentences—that grabs readers’ attention. 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Be ready to explain why you think these sentences do not work well as hooks for narrative essays.  \n1.   The roar of race-car engines ripped through the blazing heat of the day.  \n2.   It was freezing on that sad December day.  \n3.   After my brother’s accident, I sat alone in the hospital waiting room.  \n4.   My friend","cbCaim3bVJ8PI5Gk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim3bVJ8PI5Gk","pdf",5152592,26,"English","# Objectives\n# What Is a Narrative Essay?\n## Story Structure Elements\n## The Introduction\n### The Narrative Hook\n### The Thesis\n# The Body\n## Chronological or Time Order\n## Transitional Sentences","[{\"question\":\"What is a narrative essay?\",\"answer\":\"A narrative essay tells a story and uses narrative structure to organize events. 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