• Experience of having stories read to us as children.
• Narrative relates to everything
• What seperates us from animals.
• Story is a way structuring existance, and chosing bits.
• Narratvie is anything that is a retelling of events, casuality.

Cause and effect (cant fly from Perth to Broome without being in Perth)

3 key elements

• Character development (takes time, present audience with number of situations in which they can respond to, so that audiance can learn how the work)
• plot (skeleton of the story, usually written briefly with simple sentences)
• resoltuion (dictated by the events that take place during the plot, as well as character development and how different people reacted to plot)

“The stuff of story is alive but intangible”

everything is story _ Story is everyithing