Narratives are about time and space, they are usually linear and sequential.

Narratives are structured around a theme

narrative theory is based around structure can be broken down into a story and a plot.

todorov- tripartite narrative structure(world in equilibrium)

enticing incident – climax – resolution

claude levi strauss – binary oppositions

vladimir propp – stock characters

seymour chatman – satellites and kernals(main part of story)