From what I can tell, narrative stories or works are usually told from a first or third-person view. The stories, fiction or not, usually tell of very specific memories or experiences that the author experienced or imagined experiencing. Narratives must be extremely specific in order to be written well, and all details that had an affect of the situation must be stated. Since narratives are usually told from a first-person view, they must show how the narrator thought or felt. It's necessary for them to convey emotion, list all thought that went through their head, and be truthful in everything that happened; details cannot be changed.
In the best examples on the page that was listed, ''http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Basic_Writing/Narrative_and_memoir#Narrative_and_Memoir'', all of the works that displayed excellent writing and sounded the best also had great detail. The authors made it feel as if you were the narrator, they relate to the reader and make them see themselves. This reason is exactly why it's necessary to add emotion to the stories.
I'm not at all sure what my narrative will be a story about, but I'm sure I'll have no problem recollecting a random memory from the back of my brain and re-telling it.
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