“Unraveling the Mystery: How Understanding Story vs. Plot Can Transform Your Writing!”
A flashback (or flashforward) can highlight specific events when they become relevant, rather than putting them where they happened chronologically for the sake of order.
In Ratatouille (2007), Anton Ego flashes back to a scene from his childhood, not at all relevant to the audience until he tastes Remy’s dish. The stakes present—the food critic’s own opinion hanging in the balance—make this connection between the food and his childhood matter. That connection is the focus, which means that the syuzhet uses that event in this order to extract a certain message from the truth of the whole story—the whole fabula.
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