Notes

• narratives give meaning to events and circumstances
• narratives are the fabric of identity, which they fashion through content and structure
• stories refer to fundamental narratives
• stories resonate with audiences only if the audience is familiar with the fundamental narrative underlying it
• the authors project their manipulation in claiming that all narratives are “strategic”
• the authors conflate their abuse of narratives with natural narratives

Questions

1. the authors are trying to explain that narratives are a shape and stories are instances/witnesses of that type