ABSTRACT
Specific cues in the author’s text guide the reader in constructing, interpreting, and signifying story. These cues point to narrative elements of setting, plot, character narrator, and theme, among others. This chapter focuses on the author’s cues for building three central narrative elements: character, time, and narrator (Rimmon-Kenan, 1983). Several texts including a novel, a picture storybook, a storybook reading event, and adaptations of texts serve as the basis for examining these elements.
