Christian Lorentzen's Is It Story What Makes Us Read?

The plot of a novel is the basic structure of the story. It surrounds the chain of events and character actions that lead to the plot’s resolution. In “Is it Story that Makes Us Read?” by Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, he writes on the effectiveness of a plot keeping the readers eager to continue reading the novel. Lorentzen was born in 1976 and grew up outside Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Classics. In his article, Lorentzen explains how reading a plot backwards helps you understand the novel better and helps you discover new things from doing so. Throughout the article, Lorentzen explains how the way we view plots has changed over time in the form of epic poems to classical tragedies to Romance to Marriage plots and as seen today as a mixture of all themes that draws the reader’s attention. With plots having a frequent occurrence

To begin, the plot focuses attention on the important characters and their roles in the story. It motivates the characters to affect the story and connects the events. It creates a desire for the reader to go on reading by absorbing them in the middle of the story, wanting to know what happens next. The plot leads to the climax, but by gradually releases the story to maintain the reader’s interest. During the plot of a story, a reader shows pathos by their appeal to emotion within the book and connects with the book, not allowing themselves to put the book down. Eventually, the plot reveals the entire story and gives the reader a sense of completion that he has finished the story and reached an ending. The plot is what forms a memory in the reader’s mind, allowing them to think about the book and even making them want to read it again. By identifying and understanding the plot, the reader can understand the message being conveyed by the author and the moral of the