Narrative Structures.

In my book I only have a few of Propps 8 character types, Hero, Villain, Prize and Helper, these characters are CM Hood, Prince McMahon, Paul.E and Bill Goldberg respectively.

Other characters include Donor, Princesses father, False Hero and Dispatcher, examples from the films Jaws include Quint, Mayor Larry Vaughan (who can also come across as the False Hero and the Dispatcher) Jaws contains all of Propps character types but one:Hero-Police Chief Martin BrodyVillain-The SharkPrize-To free Amity from the underwater menaceDonor-Quint Helper- Hooper False Hero-Mayor Larry Vaughan Dispatcher-Mayor Larry Vaughan

As far as narratives go, my stories equilibrium is that the world my story is set in is run down and poverty stricken, CM Hood seeing the car of his enemy driving through his home is the disequilibrium and the new equilibrium is when CM Hood releases King Paul.E to rule over the land fairly.

In Jaws the equilibrium is the island of Amity and its residents ticking along as they would on any day of the year, the disequilibrium is the first and second shark attacks and the new equilibrium is when Martin Brody kills the shark at the end of the film.

My book and Jaws are both examples of Binary Opposition, good vs. evil in the case of CM Hood and Prince McMahon and man vs. beast in the case of Jaws.

My book is a single strand open narrative, as it does not reach a conclusion at the end of the book due to a cliff-hanger ending, but there is just the one storyline present throughout the whole book.

Examples of a closed narrative in a film is First Blood, which ends with John Rambo going to prison and the small town in which he has his confrontations with the police in is set to a new equilibrium.

Multistrand examples include Die Hard, the main focus of the film is John McClane trying to stop Hans Gruber’s terrorist plot, trying to win back his estranged wife and the ongoing arguments between Sgt Al Powell and the Deputy Chief and the FBI