The phrase "propel a narrative" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to how the events in a story help to move the narrative forward. For example, "The revelations made in the final act of the play propel the narrative toward its climactic conclusion."
It's not a plot point that propels a narrative; it's an inescapable box.
Civil war in Syria, trouble in Iraq, and the rise of Islamic extremists who call themselves a "state" propel a negative narrative.
Lyndsey Turner's production would seem to be inseparable from the team of Es Devlin (sets) and Finn Ross (video), whose ever-rotating stage design propels a shifting narrative that looks made to order for film.
Irish, Scottish and Welsh folk songs are – among many things – inherently rebel music, because they are propelled by a narrative history of uprising against English occupation and repression.
And they speak too of Israel gradually losing a global battle of narratives over the occupation where a different kind of asymmetry – the leverage of social media – can propel a single incident into an international scandal.
Here is a colorful setting in a slightly burnished, early-modern past (as in "Hugo Cabret"); a mysterious invitation from an exotic source to propel the narrative (as in "Harry Potter"); and a preadolescent boy hero, with several eccentric friends and a single trusty, if grumpy, older person to consult (as in... well, as in too many tales, old and new, to enumerate).
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The problem is embodied by Lacks's troubled daughter Deborah, who accompanies Skloot on reporting trips and provides access, information, and a character to propel the narrative in her mother's absence.
The problem is embodied by Lacks's troubled daughter Deborah, who accompanies Skloot on reporting trips and provides access, information, and a character to propel the narrative in her mother's absence.
It's too short, there are no minor characters to speak of, and the story is propelled less by a narrative coil spring than by a series of scenes and set pieces.
Angelic figures, motivated by what they call "a cold fascination with human disaster", propel the narrative forward and are incarnated within it.
