By turns pacy and contemplative, though never overwrought, the narrative sets up an intensifying web of connections between her death and those caught up in its fallout.
These motivational narratives set up a particular explanatory project, which shall be called the 'cumulative-adaptation' project here.
I can still read it and see the narrative threads, set up to be exploited, revealed or knocked down: and the hints in the subtle stylistic touches (Mother Abigail's side drawn into longer, more florid descriptions of their actions; Flagg's side blunter, more bullish, more exposed).
When the narrative is set up the way it is here, that's a big problem, and in this case it becomes an insurmountable one -- even with a potentially compelling premise.
"The second part of it is that I'm trying to do this in an environment where the media narrative is already set up in a certain way.
The initial Muslim-Jewish conflict narrative "served to set up the dichotomy between good and evil, between Israel, on the one hand, and the Islam on the other," Adina Holtzman, assistant director of research at the Anti-Defamation League, thed the paper.
Its narrative set-up is relatively simple: Haraldsson drones on about etiquette and fish, interrupted at regular intervals by Caeneus's after-dinner stories.
The narrative set-up: The journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is visiting the aging industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who is asking him to investigate a decades-old mystery involving his niece Harriet.
As a creator of strip cartoons, each demanding a narrative set-up and punch line, he has had to function as a literary as well as a graphic artist.
If you aren't familiar with the game's narrative set-up, it's one of the smartest in mainstream gaming.
