Story Structure: How does the ‘narrative’ relate. The principal questions in this thesis are: how does visual story structure help to engage the audience and push the narrative further? What makes a story structure in graphic novels successful? According to Aristotle, the ability to plot, or to create a powerful structure, is the most important aspect of writing. In a graphic novel, plot can be told by images, captions, speech bubbles and other methods. Plot can also be revealed by panel structure. So by analyzing the plot of graphic novels we can learn the basic elements of a story.
The graphic novel is the combination of novel storytelling with the sequential art of the comic book .Through progression of frames the story of a graphic novel unravels. Panels achieve “secure control of the reader’s attention and dictate the sequence in which the reader will follow the narrative”. Narrative structures are embedded in a story giving a framework as it makes the person feel that he is part of the story.
A narrative can be used in many different ways with the main purpose of telling us a story in which it can be heard in a radio or To understand the term “graphic novel”, it watched during a film. Like a movie musical, is important to discuss the structure narra- a graphic novel can be represented through tive. The advent of the term ‘graphic novel’ dancing moves . indicates a new variety of possibilities for the mediation of storytelling. The ability of combining the visual language of sequential art with the structured realism of the novel is what makes a graphic novel to flourish.
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