Investigating narrative techniques in Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation” in Terms of Labov’s natural narrative model : a socio-stylistic study

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Guests of the Nationis one of Frank O’Connor’s personal experience short stories.

It represents the Irish-English war era.

As a real witness of the Irish rebellion, the narrator incarnates what he experienced like futility of war, conflicts, and betrayal in his story.

The paper in question investigates the narrative components the narrator used to convey his story to the readers depending on an effective way by which the structure of his story is accurately set up.

This structure is analogous to Labov’s Natural Narrative model which classifies any well-told story into six components (Abstract, Orientation, Complicating Action, Evaluation, Result, and Coda)and this model is what, along with Hoey’s Pattern as a helping linguistic tool, the study depends on in the analysis of O’Connor’s Guests of the Nation.