NARRATIVE STRUCTURE/ THEORY

- A young boy plays football on the street
- His parent made him go to college which he doesn,t want to.
- He made his lack of interest obvious to his teachers
- He had a new equilibrium of now playing for an official team, which made his dream come through.

THEORY

Tzvetan Todorov- Equilibrium
All stories starts in a state of equilibrium, which is then disrupted, setting in a motion a chain of events. The resolution of the story is the creation of a new/difeerent equilibrium.
           Equilibrium- disruption- resolution/new equilibrium.

Levi Strauss- binary oppositions
Meanings, include narrative,depends on binary oppositions - he explores this in term of underlying typical themes rather than events. conflict helps drive the narrative.

          * Man vs woman
          * White vs black
          * Young vs old
          * Hero vs hillian
          * West vs east
          * Good vs bad

Robert kckee
Robert kckee has a simple 5 part structure of narrative

1.        Inciting incident
2.        Progressive complecation
3.        Crisis
4.        Climax
5.        Resolution