Examples of Short Chronicles

Short Chronicle

The chronicle it's a kind of narration that presents the events in chronological form, and tries to be as explanatory and objective as possible regarding a topic on which it is narrated.

A chronicle recounts and transmits the events sequentially, with the aim of introducing and transmitting the narrated events to the reader.

You can make short chronicles about a movie, a historical event, a book, a particular event, etc. The best known example of a chronicle could be the story of the Bible since it chronologically recounts events that occurred in antiquity.

Use of chronicles

Generally, a short chronicle makes reference to the place and time (dates and time) to locate the reader spatially and temporally. Short chronicles are often used in the journalistic field since it is an efficient genre to transmit events objectively.

In other cases, a chronicle may be aimed at a small audience, such as a classroom in a school. Due to their easy understanding, the chronicles are usually used in children's stories, narrations for the teaching of a language.

Examples of short chronicles

1. Short journalistic chronicle

Ana got up on Friday March 14 at 10 AM as was her custom.

After breakfast, she left.

She walked out the door to her work offices that were a few blocks from her home.

When crossing the great Avenida San Martín, she did not notice that a car was coming in the opposite direction and, without being able to avoid Ana, the car ran over her.

Ana was transferred to the nearest hospital. Fortunately two days later Ana was discharged with minor injuries and external medical controls.

1. Chronicle of a children's story

In 2001, at the beginning of classes, María, just 4 years old, had told her mother that she would not go to school. She felt very small and did not want to be separated from her.

She cried all night almost unable to sleep from anguish for the first day of school. Her mother, a little worried about her, got up a little earlier that March 4 and prepared a breakfast that Maria loved: toast with butter and goat cheese.

But Maria hardly ate anything.

At 8 AM they left the house for the school that was 11 blocks from Maria's house.

But when she got to the door of the school, Maria met her neighbor Rocío de ella.

When she saw Rocío enter the school without any difficulty, María followed her. Together they entered school that first day and every day afterwards until they finished elementary school.

1. Chronicle of a historical event

The sinking of the Titanic

On April 15, 1912, one of the greatest nautical tragedies in history took place; the sinking of the Titanic.

This voyage was the maiden voyage of the gleaming Titanic. It should cross the Atlantic Ocean until it reaches the shores of North America in the United States.

However, another would be the destination of the magnificent ship: the night before, on April 14, 1912, around 11:40 p.m., the Titanic crashed against a gigantic Iceberg that tore the hull of the ship in such a way that, after a few hours, the Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea.

Despite attempts by the crew to radio for help, no ships came to them. Thus without being able to see the dawn (exactly at 02:20 AM) on April 15, the Titanic was already buried at the bottom of the sea.

The tragedy took more than half the population (1,600 people sank with the boat when the total of passengers for that trip was 2,207 people).

1. Chronicle of a trip

The first day of our vacation trip

The bus left at 5 p.m. on February 20 of this year. The next 10 days we would spend in the mountains, in the city of Bariloche, Neuquén province, Argentina.

When we arrived at 12 noon on February 21, we prepared to take the room. After a warm shower we went to the mall for lunch.

We finally found a restaurant that we all liked. We ate there and around 2:00 pm we returned to the hotel to start the first outing of our vacation: the visit to Mount Otto.

We arrived there at 3:00 p.m. and, after the ascent, we visited the museum and the revolving confectionery. Of course we could not avoid having a coffee in the confectionery and observing the magnificent Cerro Tronador (always snowy, always splendid to admire) in the distance.

Later we visit the forest that is located sideways on the same Otto hill.

We managed to take many photographs and, at 7:00 p.m. we decided to start our return.

Then, at the hotel, we change our clothes and set off to visit the mall, do some shopping, and have seafood dinner.

At around 11 pm we return to the hotel, tired and wanting to sleep and the next day to start another family adventure.

1. Chronicle of a fact

Lucia came to my house every morning when we were children. I remember that in 1990 we both played in the street from morning until the sun went down.

However, after a few years, Lucia stopped coming to play. Sure, time passed and we weren't 10 years old anymore... She and I were going to turn 15 by the spring of 1995. It was logical that she no longer came to play as we did before. However, she did not visit me either.

Christmas 1995 she didn't even call me on the phone. Apparently my friend Lucia was dating a very handsome boy.

The years passed and I regretted the distance from her but other friends came into my life.

However, something was going to happen: on June 17, 2000, at 2:35 p.m., Lucia came to my house like she did in the old times only, this time, she was heartbroken since her mother was about to die.

At that moment all my pain and anguish was gone so I could contain her pain. The distance from her no longer mattered during these years.

Her mother suffered agony for almost 4 months and on October 1, 2000, she died of a devastating cancer.

Lucia's pain was immense but she was contained and accompanied by all her loved ones.

Today, 15 years later, after that event, I can say that Lucia and I are still very close friends, like when she came to play in the afternoons in 1990.

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