Narratives are about time and space.

They are linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line) and sequential (forming or following in a logical order or sequence)

Chronology (what order) and secrets

How is it structured? What order

Beginning, middle and End

Narratives are organised around a theme

There is a difference between narrative story and plot

You learn to ride a moped, your nervous and scared- you get your 125 your grown up and confident- flashback to a kid when you learn how to ride a bicycle.

Tztevan Toddorov: Equilibrium, Disruption, New Equilibrium

High point of drama is the climax

the enticing incident is what begins the climax

the resolution is after the climax

Claude Levi-Strauss (Binary oppositions)

e.g white/ black straight/ gay rich/poor

Vladimir Propp (Character types and functions)

there are stock characters with stock functions

Hero, Helper, Princess, villain, victim, dispatcher, father, false hero

Seymour Chatman: Satellites (embellishments, developments, aesthetics) and kernels (key moment in the plot/ narrative structure)