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Discuss the importance of time in the narration of a story.

Time is central to the narration of every story. A novelist can’t write a story without it. The story should follow a structured chronology without which the story cannot make sense and the novel cannot be understood. Novels always need a clock because it narrates events as it happened one after the other.


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