NARRATION In its most basic form, narration is story telling. A story is the combination of a series of events leading up to a conclusion. The excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography has these elements of a story. Read a portion of it again, below.

I met a boy with bread . . . and inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to. . . . Not knowing the different prices nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told [the baker] to give me threepenny worth of any sort. He gave me accordingly three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street . . . passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
This passage is an example of an anecdote, a brief episode in a much larger story, in this case, the story of Franklin's life. This paragraph, like all narrative paragraphs, uses chronological organization. That is, it describes a series of happenings or events in the order in which they occurred.

Create a brief outline of the events from Franklin's anecdote.