Wed 14 Oct, 2009
Chapter 6 of Armor – Things Turn Ugly, By Way of William Shakespeare
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Most folks will tell you that a good story is made up of rising action. That is, you’re always building to the climax at the end of the story.
Which makes complete sense, until you discover that this doesn’t fit the plays of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s plays have a more hump-like structure. Something major happens in the middle of the story; everything beforehand leads up to it, and everything afterwards is just reacting to it.
Well, I’m not Shakespeare, but chapter 6 is the major event in the middle (okay, about 2/3 of the way into) Armor. Things is where things turn serious. Sure, serious things happened before, but now we see serious consequences. Now, people might die.
Gadhadh says:
Thank you for a great blog.