Eng 202 Week1 Discussion

Eng 202 Week1 Discussion

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  • Date Submitted: 12/19/2013 2:42 PM
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A plot, often referred to as the storyline, is the events of a story that are linked with one another in a pattern that reflects cause and effect. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, considered the plot to be the most important element of drama and held it above anything else. Gustav Freytag divided plot in to five parts which can be listed as exposition (of the situation); rising action (through conflict); climax (or turning point); falling action and resolution. While complex plots are referred to as an imbroglio, there may be extremely simple plots such as the plots that are used in traditional ballads which nevertheless include multiple inferences (C. & G. Merriam Co. Springfield, Mass., 1998).
A story is a format that describes a series of events that lead to one another. The origin of stories run as far as ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, Chinese and Indian civilizations while it still remains a ubiquitous component of human communication. A story can also be named as a narrative which is a story that is narrated by a character. Stories are an essential component in culture as many works of art and pieces of literature were created with the sole purpose of telling a story (C. & G. Merriam Co. Springfield, Mass., 1998).

The film that comes to mind for me is the one I am watching as I write this, “The Notebook” was released in 2004, directed by Nick Cassavetes, and written by Nicholas Sparks. This love story is about a young couple who was separated by her family's wealth and social differences. They fall in love as young teenagers early on in the story and reconnected years later as adults . The plot of this story has us on a journey through the lives of two people, Noah and Allie. The story starts out with Duke(Noah) reading a story to and elderly women (Allie) who has Alzheimer's, which Duke had turned their home they lived in into a nursing home. Duke is reading the story of two young lovers that takes the viewer as well as, the elderly...

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