Jerome Bruner outlines ten important characteristics of Narrative and some can be stated in a simplified manner as follows
Time - Narratives take place over a ** of time.
Particularity: Narratives deal with particular events.
Characters with qualities: The characters within Narratives have "beliefs, desires, theories, values, and so on".
Story: Narratives are composed as a selected series of events that constitute a "story."
Canonicity and breach: Stories are about some unusual happenings that "breaches" the canonical (i.e. normal) state.
