World Education Connect Multidisciplinary e-Publication, Vol. VI, Issue X (October 2026), pp.31-34
Maria Lourdes A. Ugale PhD
English/TESOL Teacher
National Academy Foundation
Introduction
Stories are ordered in sequences of events to help readers understand characters, surroundings, conflicts, actions, and outcomes. But narratives consist of more than the individual words of writers; they have deeper structural patterns that organize the flow of events. The analysis of these macrostructures might thus give us important insights into how stories are made coherent and keep the reader involved.
Labov’s Model of Narrative Analysis offers a way to look at the major components of narrative organization. The model identifies crucial narrative aspects such as abstract, orientation, complex action, evaluation, resolution and coda. In the original study these are described as what the story is about, who and where the players are, what happens, how the events are judged, what happens at the end and how the narrative returns to the present situation.
Philippine short stories are an interesting body of material for narrative analysis as they contain diverse human experiences and cultural situations within relatively compact story frameworks. The present study summarizes the macrostructure level of the initial research and evaluates the structure of the chosen stories based on Labov’s model.
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