The Art of Narrative Is an Art

The ability to tell or narrate is directly linked to knowledge. A child who narrates the life of George Washington, episode by episode, builds an affinity for him and feels that he knows him. When any of us have to think about something thoroughly enough to be able to relate it to someone else, we are making that bit of knowledge a part of ourselves and our experience. Everyday telling can be refined into the creative art of narration. It is creative because each child's mind, working on the material at hand, reproduces a version that is unique to that individual. The historical seven liberal arts, grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, were called arts