[header] How to summarize a story [title] Read the story. [step] It will be very difficult to summarize a story without actually reading it. So crack open your book, or plug in some headphones and listen to it on your ipod. 
Don't always trust the internet sites that claim to summarize books, because they aren't always accurate. [substeps] As you're reading, you need to keep in mind what the central idea of the story is.