Two friends of yours just took a camping trip together. Although they were on the same trip, they tell the story of the vacation quite differently. Explain those factors that could account for their diverging narratives.

What will be an ideal response?


Narrators come from different fields and perspectives, and hold different things to be
important. Their narrative would reflect those priorities. They also have different characters to
work with, as each would be a character in the other’s narrative, but the narrator in their own.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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