Narrative

A narrator is the one who tells the story.

A narrative is the way in which a story is told.

Narratology Theorist: Tzvetan Todorov- Narrative Equilibrium

Equilibrium- State of balance/state of things that don't change.

• Suggested a story starts with the state of equilibrium.
• Then something happens to unbalance is (disequilibrium).
• Partial restoration of equilibrium- Things don't get quite back to normal however they could become better.

Narrative for Todorov is moving from one state of equilibrium to another.

Liminality- A period of transition 

Single Strand Narrative- Follows a single narratives

Multi Strand Narrative- Follows many isolated narratives

Linear Narrative- Chronological narrative

Non-Linear Narrative- Non-chronological narrative 

Other building blocks of narrative:

• Genre conventions 
• Character archetypes 
• Mise-en-scene 
• Barthe's codes
• Binary oppositions