“Unraveling the Mystery: How Story and Plot Shape the Tales We Love”
Because of how the story events are organized, you can give the audience a completely different experience from the original story—one that reveals more of the timeline and that narrative truth, making it clear what the story’s “subject” (its focus) should be. If the focus is on discovering lost memories, showing all those memories at the beginning would undermine the story.
This is why syuzhet and fabula must always work together: To have a narrative, you must have both story and plot complement each other.
