It is impossible to give a linear account of the plot since there isn't one.
The Fort has a plot, but it's the linear account of a siege, with intermittent surprises.
The film itself turns out to be a traditional, linear account of the Moses story that could have been taken from one of David Kossoff's bible stories.
The chapters then alternates in an A-B, A-B pattern, the first strand providing a linear account of Shevek's coming of age and growing disillusionment with the anarchists of Annares, the second an account of his growing disillusionment with the Tories on Uras.
While providing smooth segues between speakers to form an essentially linear account of Watson's rise and fall, Matthiessen uses his multiple narrators to create tantalizing ambiguities, not so much about the justice of Watson's death or even about the facts of his life but about the contradictory attitudes of the poor "crackers" and mixed-bloods who called him "Emperor Watson".
Far from being a linear account of a search for roots, however, "The Visible World" proceeds through a kind of imaginative archaeology, sending probes into strata of time, examining fragments of excavated evidence and reflecting on layers of meaning concealed under, and revealed through, the familiar appearances of the visible world.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's award-winning The Pike, about the fascistic poet, novelist, satyromaniac, and conqueror of Fiume, Gabriele d'Annunzio, forgoes a linear account of his life, and in its flashbacks and pre-emptions, allows the contradictory nature of the man to become more evident.
In Augustine, we find a conception of human history that in effect reverses this schema by providing a linear account which presents history as the dramatic unfolding of a morally decisive set of non-repeatable events.
Before he learned how trauma fragments memory, he expected victims to have a detailed, linear account of their assault and didn't know to ask them open-ended questions.
Split up into three parts — "Becoming Me," "Becoming Us," and "Becoming More" — the book is a fairly linear account that spans from her well-documented roots on the black working-class South Side of Chicago, to meeting Barack, and then moving to the White House as the country's first black First Family.
