Ryan, Marie-Laure. Avatars of Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006

In this article, Marie-Laure Ryan describes what makes up a narrative. It is then summarized in a list form. The Summary explains how narrative is the textual realization of story, and that the story itself is a narrative in a virtual form. By seeing things from this perspective it pushes me to think more effectively about the relationship between the two and how narrative is different from other text types due to its power to tell stories to the mind. However, even given all of these option Ryan still raises the point the no one can ever be sure that the text is going to be read in the exact way that we wrote it, despite trying to implement and use every tool available.