Rhetorical Narrative Theory focuses on how audiences experience reading and how that experience can be through multiple lenses. I.e., somebody telling the story of somebody else’s story. 

QUESTIONS THAT THE THEORY ASKS:

• Who is telling the story/why?
• What does the reader feel about the text?
• What kind of judgements does the text ask the reader to make?

-These questions are important because rhetorical narrative says that experiences are shared, and these questions would help provide an understanding of how.  Rhetorical Narrative is somebody telling somebody else on some occasion and for some purpose something that happened.  Through the who/why question readers are able to pinpoint what is going on in the text, and why the author intended it to go that way. How the reader feels about these choices in the text is important to the text, because it adds to the shared experiences. Because the judgements in a text center around 3 qualities; interpretive, ethical, and aesthetic, they add to the reader’s experience in terms of how they feel about a character, a situation, how they feel about the plot, and the story world, as well as the quality of the story and how enjoyable it might be v. not.