![]() ![]() First and foremost, it is a frame story – a story where the main narrative is "framed" by an explanation of how and why the narrator is telling the story. “A Good Story” features a complex narrative structure. ![]() Although he worries about the future, he resolves to enjoy small pleasures in the present. The narrator’s mother admits that she liked the story, and the narrator goes outside and sips his Diet Pepsi. Arnold asks Uncle Moses to tell a good story, and Moses tells the one the narrator has just told. Arnold is the only child there, and he explains that he skipped a field trip with the other schoolchildren so he could see Uncle Moses. One day, Uncle Moses visits the playground to watch Arnold play. He has a special relationship with Arnold, a light-skinned young boy who is teased by the other kids although he is a great basketball player. Uncle Moses lives on the reservation in a house he built himself 50 years earlier. He proceeds to tell his mother “a good story” (140). ![]() Thinking about this, the narrator argues that there is a lot of laughter in his stories too. As she works, his mother asks him why all of his stories about Indigenous people are sad. The narrator sits with his mother as she quilts. ![]()
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