https://blog.reedsy.com/narrative-arc/
Listed above are links to three pieces of media that I plan to use as multi modal additions in my essay. two of these links lead to images I will use in my title (one is a source YouTube link I have the the image that I will use saved all ready). One image is of a classic narrative arc stylized to look like a roller coaster and the other is an image of roller coaster tracks which I found to look chaotic. These two images will be displayed with the title of the paper since I want the comparison of life as a classic narrative and as something chaotic to be burned into my readers mind from the beginning. My addition is a YouTube video on chaos theory and the butterfly effect which I plan to insert before I start to talk about the chaos of life to give the reader some background information. The video will specifically explain the concept that complex systems (I will argue like us) are so easily affected and are affected by so many things that both tiny things can make giant differences (butterfly effect) and that complex systems can’t be accurately predicted. I want to argue that people are complex systems with timelines of events that rarely if ever follow the regular pattern of classic literary narrative and that because of this you can’t get an accurate personal narrative thinking in this way, and that if you look back on your life and only connect the things that happened that built on each other in ways that you believe furthered your “story” you will leave out massive chunks of what actually happened. I will also argue that despite this narrative structure can be useful in describing parts of your life and I will use Ben’s narrative project
