Can someone meread the excerpt from almost a woman by esmeralda santiago. write a short narrative that deals with a time that you felt connected with a culture through an activity, social gathering, music, language, or food. be. sure to: engage and orient the reader by developing a setting and introducing a narrator and/or characters use narrative techniques like dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection to develop the story employ syntactical variety, using different types of sentence structure to give your prose a natural rhythm provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved in the narrative