![]() Maybe you’ve read the collection One Thousand and One Nights and learned in the frame story that the storyteller, Scheherazade, has just married a king, Shahryār. You have probably read a novel or watched a movie that begins in this way. Instead of jumping right into the tale to be told, these narratives pause for a moment to reveal the person who tells the tale, the people who listen to the it, and the occasion for telling it. But every so often we read stories that build a frame narrative into the story itself. Like your uncle’s Facebook post, most of the time, the stories that we encounter are frameless or minimally framed, and we therefore have to do some research to reestablish the context out of which they are produced. In this fictional scenario, the story of the toxic apple juice seems designed to motivate its audience to buy more pear juice, and we read it in a very different way with this knowledge in mind. This story isn’t, of course, real, but it does illustrate the ways in which paying attention the frame surrounding a story can help us to rethink the content of the story. This revelation makes you rethink what you have just read, and you decide to do a bit more research before you give up on apple juice for good. This conclusion seems more than a bit suspicious, so you do some quick Googling and find out that ParedDownNews is financed by something called Freedom Pears of America-a marketing team for pear juice manufacturers that your uncle, coincidentally, works for. If you want all the taste of apple juice without all the rabies side effects, the article concludes, you should start drinking pear juice. You usually roll your eyes at your uncle’s weird reposts, but you have some time to kill, so you click on the story and discover what appears to be a scientific article entitled “The Hidden Dangers of Apple Juice” published by a site called “ParedDownNews.” According to the article, apple juice not only causes cancer it also probably contains rabies passed on by fruit bats. “Read this, sheeple!” he has written in all caps. As you scroll through the feed, you notice a news story that your uncle has posted. Here’s a simple example: Let’s say you wake up one morning and reach for your phone to check Facebook. It usually appears at the beginning and end of that larger story and provides important context and key information for how to read it. What is a Frame Story? Transcript (English & Spanish Subtitles Available in Video Click HERE for Spanish Transcript)īy Raymond Malewitz, Oregon State University Associate Professor of American LiteratureĪs its name suggests, a frame story is a narrative that frames or surrounds another story or set of stories. Conference for Antiracist Teaching, Language and Assessment. ![]() Fall 2023 Undergraduate Course Descriptions.Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS).Scientific, Technical, and Professional Communication Certificate.
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