Jerome Bruner outlines ten important characteristics of Narrative and some can be stated in a simplified manner as follows1. Time - Narratives take place over a period of time.2. Particularity: Narratives deal with particular events.3. Characters with qualities: The characters within Narratives have 'beliefs, desires, theories, values, and so on'.4. Story: Narratives are composed as a selected series of events that constitute a 'story.'5. Canonicity and breach: Stories are about some unusual happenings that 'breaches' the canonical (i.e. normal) state.