Now, I don’t consider myself very knowledgeable on Todorov or Narrative, I read the article, probably not closely enough as I couldn’t contribute much to discussion in class, but I’ll talk about what I can here.

From what I understood while reading, narrative is the way a story is told, and changing the narrative will change how the story is perceived.  Todorov gives several examples of similar situations; people getting caught in inappropriate sexual situations. And each differed from the one before it, but retained some of the same, more central information. Each one of these stories are told from a different narrative about a similar idea.

Todorov’s style an organization on narrative reminded me a lot of Aristotle and Poetics. Where Aristotle talked about tragedy, Todorov discussed narrative, I like this type of organization.