ABSTRACT
Narratives have a structure, and learning the structure of a Chinese narrative will make it easier for you to write your own narratives, that is, paragraphs and essays, in Chinese. The narrative at the beginning of this lesson describes a situation, a conversation with Dawei. It has the following features:
1. It follows a temporal progression. First, it anchors the situation in time ( just before the start of the semester). Then, it describes the situation that happened at that time (a conversation with Dawei). Finally, it closes the situation by stating an event that follows it (they went to the bookstore to buy books).
