The typical arc of the dystopian narrative mirrors the course of adolescent disaffection.
It is up to the viewers to piece together all the shards of the shattered narrative mirror.
The non-linear narrative mirrors the movement of memory, looping back and forth through time, swerving over sore points and later returning to prod the painful moments.
The storyline in the first book follows Greg's attempts to elevate his lowly status by launching his own middle school cartoon strip; a narrative mirrored by Kinney's own professional development.
As in Robbe-Grillet, the mystery lies not within the crime but within the detective: while Minami moves steadily closer to the unbearable revelations at the book's denouement, the narrative mirrors his disintegration, splintering into the various Tourette's-like repetitions, the slightly out-of-phase allusions that have dotted it.
Narratives mirror the post-traumatic flashbacks of the novel, hopscotching among associative memories and moving forward while looking back.
She interpreted the times for us with unrivalled penetration: her branching and many-layered narratives mirrored our shifting world of identities lost and found, insiders versus outsiders, alternative histories and utopias postponed.
The narrative structure mirrors Mary Byrd's consciousness: the world works "randomly and chaotically," she thinks, "with billions and trillions of stories overlapping and colliding and entangling".
As usual, Mr. McBurney avoids linear storytelling, creating instead more complicated spatial and temporal patterns, refracting the narrative to mirror the complex ideas being discussed.
The idea that evolution is a directional process from lower/primitive to higher/advanced is a powerful cultural narrative, often mirrored in popular imagery about evolution (Clark 2001; Gould 1997; Green and Shapely 2005; Matuk 2007; O'Hara 1992).
Hawley's narrative gaslighting mirrors the way mental illness clouds reality.
