One Sky The Core Plot Style Types Are Voyage and Return and Fall and Rise Analysis

The six core plot types that form the building blocks of narrative are:

Rags to riches (an arc following a rise in happiness)

Tragedy or riches to rags (an arc following a fall in happiness)

Man in a hole (fall-rise)

Icarus (rise-fall)

Cinderella (rise-fall-rise)

Oedipus (fall-rise-fall)

(via Emma Bullen)

The Seven Basic Plots According to Christopher Booker: 

Overcoming the monster – Beowulf, King Kong, Alien, they all have something in common. A hero or heroine is forced on a quest where they need to save their community/the girl/the human race. Most likely, this would be a ‘man in a hole’ plot.

Rags to riches – We’ve got this covered, it’s our first basic plot type.

The quest – Here, our daring hero, often accompanied by a friend, sets out on an adventure, often to undergo a journey along the way, ultimately to win the prize or the love interest before returning home again. This could also be a ‘man in a hole’ plot, but it might also be a ‘rags to riches’ plot.

Voyage and return – These stories are about heroes who find themselves in strange and unusual lands. Much depends on how the voyage goes. It could be simple, following a ‘rags to riches’ arc as the hero sets off happily, finds treasure and returns with it. Or, it could get more complicated. Say they follow the Oedipus plot, falling victim to a terrible storm, but finding a new land and claiming it as their own, only to be kidnapped by cannibals. 

Comedy – In terms of a Shakespearean comedy, like Much Ado About Nothing, there is some confusion and mischief that separates the lovers that must be resolved before they reunite again. This might follow the Cinderella plot.

Tragedy – We’ve got this covered too, it’s our second basic plot type. 

Rebirth – Here, our hero has lost him or herself and needs to find a path back to redemption. A Christmas Carol is a great example here, with Scrooge finding joy and magic in Christmas. Perhaps Scrooge is just a ‘man in a hole’, who, with a little help from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future, finds his way out of it again.

For each of the link: write 250 words (not include work cited), there are total 4 of them.

http://www.banipal.co.uk/selections/95/325/liana-b…

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/dist…

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/558485/the…

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/05/21/a-vi…

choose 2 readings from this week and 2 readings from all those we’ve done so far in the course and using the plot categories listed above, say which plot type (or types) best fits each one.

The six core plot types that form the building blocks of narrative are:

Rags to riches (an arc following a rise in happiness)

Tragedy or riches to rags (an arc following a fall in happiness)

Man in a hole (fall-rise)

Icarus (rise-fall)

Cinderella (rise-fall-rise)

Oedipus (fall-rise-fall)

(via Emma Bullen)

The Seven Basic Plots According to Christopher Booker:

Overcoming the monster – Beowulf, King Kong, Alien, they all have something in common. A hero or heroine is forced on a quest where they need to save their community/the girl/the human race. Most likely, this would be a ‘man in a hole’ plot.

Rags to riches – We’ve got this covered, it’s our first basic plot type.

The quest – Here, our daring hero, often accompanied by a friend, sets out on an adventure, often to undergo a journey along the way, ultimately to win the prize or the love interest before returning home again. This could also be a ‘man in a hole’ plot, but it might also be a ‘rags to riches’ plot.

Voyage and return – These stories are about heroes who find themselves in strange and unusual lands. Much depends on how the voyage goes. It could be simple, following a ‘rags to riches’ arc as the hero sets off happily, finds treasure and returns with it. Or, it could get more complicated. Say they follow the Oedipus plot, falling victim to a terrible storm, but finding a new land and claiming it as their own, only to be kidnapped by cannibals.

Comedy – In terms of a Shakespearean comedy, like Much Ado About Nothing, there is some confusion and mischief that separates the lovers that must be resolved before they reunite again. This might follow the Cinderella plot.

Tragedy – We’ve got this covered too, it’s our second basic plot type.

Rebirth – Here, our hero has lost him or herself and needs to find a path back to redemption. A Christmas Carol is a great example here, with Scrooge finding joy and magic in Christmas. Perhaps Scrooge is just a ‘man in a hole’, who, with a little help from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future, finds his way out of it again.