Narrative and your text

How do audiences decode the narrative of your text?

Organisation of your answer
Essay form - somewhere between 800 and 1000 words is good. If you're stuck for ideas try this structure.

Introduction
What is the decoding process? How do audiences engage in it consciously/unconsciously? Does your narrative follow conventions or challenge existing conventions

Main body paragraphs
In the order that you think is appropriate, you should write a paragraph on each of the following

• Your text and Todorov - how do you play with/follow the audience's expectation of the equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium pattern?
• Your text & Barthes - how do action and enigma codes work within your text(s)? How do they help drive the narrative on?
• Your text & Propp - What are our expectations of character? How do your characters fullfil Propps character roles?
• Your text & Levi-Strauss - What binary oppositions are present in your text(s), and how do they help our understanding of it? Does the audience's grasp of right/wrong change? (Clue: make strong connections between this paragraph and the one on Propp or Barthes depending on how this has been achieved)
• Your text and Symbolic Codes - Does each sequence has a memento - a significant object which provides a link forward and back? How do these objects help us understand the narrative (fabula) ie how can they be said to help construct it?

Conclusion:
How DO audiences decode the narrative? Why does it make sense?

Length: 800-1000 words