The speckled and narrative analysis

Well I took the advice of the professor and started to read the narrative analysis, it was a very hard piece to read. It was not the most interesting piece to read but I got through it because as I read I got the point of it, which was in my opinion that barthes was trying to explain to us that there are many types of narratives that are carried out in various forms. From what I understood, as a narrative is read you reach degrees of understanding a piece instead of just reading sentences. As it states at the bottom of pg. 90 "In order to determine the initial narrative units, it is therefore vital never to lose sight of the functional nature of the segments under consideration and to recognize in advance that they will not necessarily coincide with the forms into which we traditionally cast the various parts of narrative discourse." As for the speckled band there was a much lighter tone to it because it didnt have words that I had to keep going to dictionary.com for, but the only connection I got after reading both pieces was that I saw how there were levels of a tale just not a couple of sentences being put out "traditionally" on paper.