ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study to look at how a child used narrative, and provides some examples of protonarratives. Human beings tend to use narrative in order to make sense of their lives. Jerome Bruner tells us that children enter the world of narrative early in life. Those of us who have children or who have spent time with children will find this no surprise. The urge to make sense of experience through story seems to arise from the child's earliest communications with adults within the context of the culture where the intention of the adult can be seen to be narrative in the sense of turning any exchange into a story to help the infant make sense of it. One clear example of this comes from the work of Catherine Snow who, noted that they commented on everyday events in a remarkably narrative way, imputing motives and emotions and the rudiments of a plot.
