Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Collection I - Human Stories

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before"
                                                                - Willa Cather

  • birth
  • childhood
  • adolescence/unruly
  • work
  • marriage
  • journey(spiritual or physical)
  • death
  • happy time <---> bad/sad time
Stories repeats a cycle of the main character being unhappy in the start or turns unhappy during the story and then goes through a journey of spiritual or physical. Eventually the main character goes back to the original state or maybe better. This broad cycle can be fit to almost all stories but there are some stories that don't follow the cycle. Usually if a story does not follow this routine, it is a bad story because this cycle has a introduction, conflict, and usually a climax, then resolution being that the main character goes back to how he started, or better.

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