So we also did about sequence today, in period 3. I learnt all about how sequence affects the story and has a big affect of expectations. For example, in a murder, if the story started just after the murder had happened it would creates millions and millions of questions from the reader as to why this murder happened, why was the person killed? etc... However, if you were to start the story leading up to the murder, it would make the reader want to read on for entirely different purposes e.g. will the murder actually happen?
We also learnt about analepsis - a posh word for skipping time or a flashback, that I found really interesting. This links into the Kite Runner, and although only studying a page and a half of the book so far, 3 time zones have come into the 2 paragraphs - December 2001, 1975 and Summer 2000. To be honest, I failed miserably to notice it to start off with, and if we hadn't done the lesson before which linked into it, I still might not have done, but now that I have, I am far more conscious of the fact that I want to know what's going to happen next :)
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